Australia's Federal Police (AFP) yesterday announced an expansion in its ability to seek digital evidence will be 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 eight more over the next three year. Minster for home affairs Karen Andrews announced AUD$5.7m (US$4.4m) funding to train and deploy the pooches.
The dogs can sniff out devices like USB sticks or SIM cards, a task that is difficult for humans given the devices are sufficiently small that they're easily hidden.
On the AFP Facebook page, the force said the dogs will help improve capabilities regarding collection of digital ..
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