Timeline for Why police didn't even block me once at the airport arrivals?
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| Oct 30, 2014 at 8:26 | comment | added | jwenting | if it's a terminal for internal flights only, I'd also seriously doubt it was a narcotics dog. More likely it'd be a cheaper (to train) regular crowd control dog, and the police guy merely there to step in if say a fight broke out between for example "supporters" of rival football teams. | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 19:47 | comment | added | Relaxed | @MeNoTalk See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_breed | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 19:40 | comment | added | Relaxed | @JoeBlow That much is clear but what I gathered from the OP's description is that policemen were just standing there and never approached him. In my experience, dogs trained to detect explosives (is it different from drugs?) come within a few centimetres of each bag to “take a sniff” and are not simply waiting in a corner to see (or smell) if something comes up. So you first have to be stopped (not strip-searched of course but asked to stand still and present your bags) for the dog to do anything. | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 16:44 | comment | added | Fattie | Relaxed -- just to be clear. What they are saying is: some drug-dogs are trained so that, when they DO find something, the dog has to give a signal, right. What is that signal? Surprisingly, the signal the dog gives is the dog "sits down". | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 13:42 | comment | added | Relaxed | I am not an expert by any means but in my experience, police dogs don't sit at a distance waiting to smell something, they actively inspect bags/rooms/vehicles/etc. For example, departing from a London airport, I had to present my bag to an explosive-sniffing dog. It was not necessary to open the bag but everyone was stopped and asked to stand in line for inspection. | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 13:39 | comment | added | Nean Der Thal | thanks for the info :) I learned something new. I thought dogs only bark :) | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 13:38 | comment | added | Peteris | @MeNoTalk the signals depend on how the particular dog is trained. Different agencies and purposes require different training scenarios. The signals range from barking and digging/pawing at the detected object/smell to simply sitting down when encountering it - that training is used for detecting things where you don't want a response that is visible/obvious to bystanders. | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 13:34 | comment | added | Nean Der Thal | Signal? a wink you mean? | |
| Oct 29, 2014 at 13:30 | history | answered | Peteris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |