ABSTRACT
Scent odors from narcotics drift with air currents and may seep out through gaps in a container such as a motor vehicle. In a period of 9 months in 1988 and 1989, 12 drug-snif ng dogs at the U.S. Border Patrol Station in El Paso, Texas, detected $100 million in narcotics and $1 million in drug-contaminated cash. Drug smugglers have been known to try to kill certain dogs, including one that assisted in the detection of $64 million in narcotics.1 Drug-snif ng dogs are not just used by law enforcement units and governments. Many businesses and industry use drug-snif ng dogs on a routine basis. Many segments of the energy industry use narcotics detection dogs,2 and nightclub owners have used drug detection dogs to deter the use of drugs in their establishments.
