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Iraq province to ditch fake bomb detectors

Agence France-PresseMay 14, 2013 11:00

Police in Dhi Qar are to replace fake bomb detectors bought from a now jailed British businessman with sniffer dogs, the police chief of the southern Iraqi province said on Tuesday. "We decided to buy 30 police dogs to strengthen security checkpoints and detection of explosives... replacing the explosives detection devices currently in use," Staff Lieutenant General Hussein Abed Ali told reporters. The 30 dogs will join the eight currently in use in the province, Ali said.

US court upholds dog-sniffing drug search

Agence France-PresseFebruary 19, 2013 12:45

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it is constitutional for police to search a car simply on the basis of an alert signal from a sniffer dog. The court took up the issue in October of last year, looking at two cases involving drug-detecting canines, both in Florida in 2006. On Tuesday it ruled on one of them. In it a dog named Aldo snapped into alert mode in front of the door of a car whose driver had been stopped by police for having an expired license plate.

UPDATE 2-Police dog 'sniff' passes U.S. Supreme Court smell test

Thomson ReutersFebruary 19, 2013 12:30

* Dog's alert gave police probable cause to search * Unanimous decision on reliability of Aldo's nose (Recasts, adds details from opinion and case history) By Jonathan Stempel WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that "the sniff is up to snuff" in a Florida case on how police may use dogs to track down illegal drugs.