XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Mark Lewis wrote:   
   > "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.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Mark Lewis, North Somerset   
      
   	Drug dogs pick luggage and boxes without the owners in sight.   
   	It is not a trick.  Dogs can be trained to detect and follow many   
   scents.  Think of corpse recovery dogs and rescue dogs which are   
   trained to avoid dead people and help find buried people.   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
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