XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: newsREMOVE@hbar.co.uk   
      
   "JohnR"  wrote:   
      
   > dogs do have a quite incredible sense of smell.   
      
   An illusionist will state that the human mind has incredible properties.   
      
   Dogs may or may not be able to detect drugs by smell under ideal conditions.   
   I am interested in whether in drug searches of the kind described, the dogs   
   are detecting the presence of the drug and objectively signalling it, or the   
   officer is actually making the selection of who to search, consciously or   
   unconsciously, based on their reaction to being sniffed.  I strongly suspect   
   the latter, based on the way the search is presented and the way officers   
   watch the reaction of the person being searched, rather than the dog.   
      
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   Mark Lewis, North Somerset   
      
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