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Dept opens country's first sniffer dog training facility
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/08/2023
» SAMUT PRAKAN: The Customs Department on Thursday officially launched the Thai Customs Canine Training Centre (TCCTC) -- Thailand's first sniffer dog training facility -- in Bang Phli district.
Dept turns to dogs in narcotics battle
News, Post Reporters, Published on 09/05/2023
» The Customs Department has adopted the use of sniffer dogs to detect narcotic drugs hidden in imported and exported goods, saying its practices are now fully upgraded to meet international standards.
Yet another reason to love the Lab
Life, Published on 16/08/2021
» Labrador Retrievers are known for being adorable and friendly, but they also make very good detective dogs. Now, a Labrador Retriever can be trained to help detect people infected with Covid-19.
Russia reports record virus cases but shuns new restrictions
AFP, Published on 10/10/2020
» MOSCOW - Russia registered its highest-ever number of new coronavirus infections on Friday after officials warned that tight restrictions could be put back in place if people continued to flout restrictions.
Airports deploy rapid virus tests, sniffer dogs to unlock travel
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/09/2020
» LONDON: A handful of European airports are implementing trials of quick-fire coronavirus tests, working with airlines to push technologies still being developed as a way to revive stunted international air travel.
China’s first cloned police dog reports for duty
Published on 20/03/2019
» A cloned puppy, which was bred using DNA from an award-winning police sniffer dog, has started training with a force in the southwest of China.
Stray pup emerges top dog in elite Indian sniffer squad
AFP, Published on 06/03/2019
» KOLKATA - Some 18 months after been rescued from stone-throwing children, an Indian street mutt has emerged top dog in an elite bomb- and drug-sniffing squad.
'Training device' led to Manchester United-Bournemouth abandonment
AFP, Published on 16/05/2016
» MANCHESTER (UNITED KINGDOM) - The suspect package that saw Manchester United's Premier League game with Bournemouth at Old Trafford abandoned on Sunday was in fact a dummy device left behind following a training exercise held at the ground four days earlier, police announced.
Japan 'robo' dogs eyed for quake rescue missions
AFP, Published on 04/03/2016
» FUJIMI (JAPAN) - Rescue dog Gonta, outfitted with a GPS-enabled backpack but driven by his own innate sense of smell, jumps onto a pile of collapsed rubble to find buried survivors.
Kenya counts on team of canine agents to sniff out illegal ivory
News, AFP, Published on 04/03/2016
» Burrowing deep into a huge pile of jumbled luggage, Dick the dog wags his tail, pawing at a small green rucksack: inside is the hand-sized tip of an elephant's tusk.