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Volume 17
October 2017 Edition
RCMP Police Dogs in ‘ASTORS’ Put a Bite on
Fentanyl Crime
To counter the presence of illicit fentanyl in Canada and to
keep Canadians safe, the RCMP is currently training its Po-
lice Service Dogs to detect fentanyl, and created workshops
for other international law enforcement agencies. The goal
of the workshops are for the attendees to go back home and
develop their own fentanyl detection training system to share
with canine teams in their home country. (Image courtesy of
the RCMP)
en effective through K9 seizures after training.
The RCMP Police Dog Service Training Cen-
tre has developed a safe method to teach
narcotic K9 teams to train and search for
Fentanyl and its analogs.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) police
service dog teams are an important part of front
line policing.
They search for missing or lost people, track and
apprehend criminals, remove illicit drugs from
the streets, detect explosives and search for evi-
dence used in crimes.
This is a first of its kind in the world and has prov-
The workshop at the RCMP’s dog training centre in Alberta
has attracted participants from police forces across the conti-
nent eager to see the centre’s pioneering work in tackling the
scourge of fentanyl.
A workshop at the RCMP’s dog training centre in
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