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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, Novembers, 1973
Dogs find marijuana, hard drugs
(reprinted from Jonesboro
News-Daily)
The golden labrador
sniffed along the base of the
heater in the library of
Morrow Junior High School.
As if on a silent command
(he big dog sat attentively
next to the heater until his
handler commanded, “Show
it to me." The dog pawed
under the heater and pulled
out a samll package of
marijuana.
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Another dog handler team
passed by a shelf of books
until the dog gave an alert by
sitting down On command,
the dog reached up and
knocked several books to the
floor Spilling from the pages
of one was two gram
package of cocaine
The above scenes were
part of a staged demon
stration Sunday morning by
Military Police narcotics
investigators from Ft.
Benning. Ga
At the invitation of State
Court Judge Alvin Foster,
the two military police
narcotics agents and the
police chief of Cuthbert, Ga.,
former head of the first
narcotics squad at Fort
Benning, explained and
demonstrated the use of the
drug sniffing dogs to
members of the Clayton
County police and sherrif’s
departemnts, the county
school superintendent and
several principals and some
members of the Clayton
legislative delegation.
Cuthbert Police Chief
Phillip Jarrell explained the
use of the dogs in the
military and their ef
fectivness. Jarrell retired
from the army last year
after setting up the first
narcotics squad at Fort
Benning.
Judge Foster is one of an
eight-member committee
recently formed to fight
drugs in Clayton County and
has stated that he would
like to use trained dogs to
sniff out drugs in the county
schools.
Chief Jarrell said that the
use of these dogs is nothing
new at Fort Benning. He said
that they have haa dogs
trailed to detect marijuana
since' 1968.
“This is something the
military has been looking
into for quite a long time,”
he said.
Last year the commanding
general of Fort Benning
authorized the organization
of a norcotics squad with 12
dogs and their handlers. The
dog and handler train
together and usually stay
together as a team.
Jarrell explained that the
marijuana dogs are used to
search the buildings and
sniff around the footlockers
of the soldiers while they
were in formation outside.
He said that one dog alone
has 176 cases to his credit.
The army has just begun
using what Jarrell calls
“hard core narcotics dogs”.
The first of these was trained
at Southwest Research
Institute for the army.
“It is much harder for a
dog to detect the hard core
stuff than marijuana,
because it has less odor,” the
Cuthbert police chief
explained. Jarrell said that
humans cannot smell heroin
or many other hard drugs
and that even sophisticated
sensing machines have
failed in detecting an odor.
The dogs can sniff it out
though, and they are
trained with drugs that are
as pure as possible to be able
to detect it even though
masking agents are used
The dogs are trained on a
reward and praise system
but Jarrell was reluctant to
tell any more about the
training because he said that
such information could lead
to the development of a
defense against the dogs. But
lie said that with the
thoroughness of the training
“There is not much defen
se."
He said that the dogs had
sniffed out marijuana hidden
in the gas tanks of
automobiles and even in the
tires.
Both dogs in the demon
stration Sunday at Morrow
Junior High were gentle and
even allowed some of the
youngsters present to pat
their heads. Each gave the
signal that they had found
some drugs by sitting in
place as they got the scent
until their handler gave
them the command to paw it
out.
Judge Foster, who invited
Chief Jarrett and the two
MP’s from Fort Benning to
come on their own time, said
he was impressed with the
demonstration.
“ I thought it was very
good, and very effective,” he
said. He suggested that such
a dog could be used mainly
as a threat to the bringing of
drugs into the schools.
Chief Jarrett explained
that the two dogs shown
Sunday were restricted by
law in what they could do.
The military can use its dogs
only on federal reservations
and military posts. Jarrett
explained. The military also
has differing laws from
civilizn law as to searches
that allow more freedom for
law enforcement officials.
Jarrell also said that the
military makes no attempt
to promote the use of such
dogs hut is willing to show
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Casey tips the chair and recovers a plastic bag filled with coocaine taped to the bottom
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County School
Superintendent Ernest
Stroud said he still has
“reservations about putting
them (the dogs) in a room
with kids." He added that he
thought they would be good
to use to search parking lots
around lockers or in an
assembly program
County Police Chief
Howard Smith was among
those still not convinced also.
He commented that he had
seen better demonstrations
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Chief Smith and two
detectives did set up an
experiment with some
marijuana that they had
brought along and the
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marijuana dog indicated
that it had been in one of the
detectives coat pocket and
found it hidden in the pocket
of another person in the
room