Video: Taos PD Welcomes New Drug Dog Brady
Video (4min 46sec): Taos Police Department Welcomes New Drug Dog Brady.
The Taos Police Department initiates its first K-9 unit by training Officer Mark Archuleta and Brady, a Belgium Malinois, who will help them sniff out drugs and make arrests in Taos.
One notable quality of detection dogs is that they are able to discern individual scents even when the scents are combined or masked by other odors.
In one case at an Australian prison, a detection dog foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs that had been hidden in a woman's bra and smeared with coffee, pepper and Vicks Vapo-rub.
A sniffer dog's sense of smell is 2000 times more sensitive than that of humans.[citation needed] They can even detect things (blood, etc.) that have been left for as long as 10 years.
They can detect blood even if it has been scrubbed off surfaces. In one case, a sniffer dog sniffed a drop of blood on the wall that had been attempted to be scrubbed off. It was so small that it couldn't be seen without a microscope.
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