Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
I fail to understand the distinction between narcotics and drugs as far as when a detection dog would be involved. I posted earlier in this thread that CBP trains dogs to detect both currency and firearms so it is clear that dogs can be taught to detect more than one target item. Seems to me that a police search by canine during passenger screening without warrant would be a violation.
Understandable, because that was a typo; should have been "explosives and drugs" - I fixed it above.
Probable cause/reasonable suspicion is a complicated area of law which we shant get too much into here but when a canine indicates for explosives, the indication is accepted as a justification of reasonable suspicion and additional investigation.
Except in rare situations, the officer that is the dogs handler will not be the officer that conducts any subsequent search.