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wiredInUSA - October 2012
Paws for thought when reading this issue
of wiredInUSA. For whilst it is commonly
accepted that dogs are a man’s best
friend, they are also crime-busting and
money-saving!
Or at least ‘Jazz’, an English black labrador
is. The pooch has been trained to become
the first detection dog in the world to trace
stolen metal (see p25). Dogs have long
been used to sniff out drugs and explosives
and now, forced into action as metal and
cable theft continues, the UK police has
enlisted the help of the four-legged variety.
Metal theft costs the UK economy some
£770m a year and there are about 1,000
incidents reported every week. So the UK
police have trained Jazz to sniff out stolen
metal in places it is hard for the humble
officer to access – piled high in scrapyards
and where any forensic markings are not
immediately visible to the human eye.
Jazz is already hard at work sniffing out
SelectDNA forensic markings on a range
of metals including copper, lead and
aluminum, and simply touches the metal
withhis nose to identify it as stolen. Amazing.
David Bell
Editor
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