Australian Federal Police hiring digital evidence retrieval specialists: Being a very good boy and paws required Australia's Federal Police (AFP) is getting more help from some very good boys with four paws, wagging tails, and the ability to sniff out tech equipment with their highly sensitive noses. Not just dogs, technology detection dogs. The AFP have had three on the force since 2019 and yesterday said on Facebook they plan to add …
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I'm glad I have Faceborg in my HOSTS file.
Once, at Paddington Station in London, I observed some uniformed police officers with their sniffer dogs (King Charles Spaniels). They ignored me completely (much like everyone else come to think of it ...). Anyway, one person who was not being ignored was the man eating a chocolate ice-cream. He, or rather the ice cream, had the undivided attention of one of the sniffer dogs. So if you want to divert attention away from your hidden SIMs and other electronics, just drop a load of chocolate ice cream nearby.
Well, it could be that what you thought was simply chocolate ice cream was laced with something more exotic...
However, I recall reading somewhere that the biggest deterrent to crime is the fear of getting caught, so while law enforcement would doubtless like us to believe dogs are infallible, the major effect is probably to discourage people from trying to get whatever it is past the checks.
Hmm. The Oz Federales currently have as many sniffer dogs as Hampshire County, West Virginia, Sheriff’s Office does. Hampshire County has a population of around 20,000. The Sheriff’s Office has about three dozen deputies, including the three dogs. It’s possible that Oz needs to wake up a bit.
I think your missing the bit - there are 3 usb dogs.
The entire AFP has a whole raft of sniffer dogs including:
Firearms and explosive detection dogs
Currency and drug detection dogs
General purpose dogs
Tactical dogs
https://www.afp.gov.au/what-we-do/operational-support/afp-national-canine-capability
and then there is the whole state police dog teams
I think we do ok.
I didn't know there was a Hampshire in the new world and I had to look it up. A number of reasons for the discrepancy may exist. It might be that Hampshire County is not surrounded by an ocean and people can enter or exit without using a port or airport., giving a larger threat perimeter It might be that there are more criminals there than Australia (though genetics is against that) or the law enforcement more authoritarian. I suppose the Sheriff there may really like dogs. Whyever it might be, from years of using the internet I know Australia doesn't need to wake up at the same time as the rest of us.
and needs to find a place to dump it now the novelty has worn off?
hopefully they will be less incompetent than all his cronies he stacked the immigration department with, because his tactic there was to criminalise anything that required them to make an effort or know their job.
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