Drug use poses significant dangers to individuals and communities, leading to devastating health consequences, social disruption, and a rise in crime rates.
In particular, young people and school children can fall prey to criminal gangs who coerce them into becoming part of a county lines drug operation. This can involve children being exploited and forced to store drugs or transport them to towns and villages for sale.
Sniffer dogs – or drugs detection dogs – are vital in the fight against county lines operations and the criminal activity that comes with the sale of drugs.
Our highly trained dogs possess an incredible sense of smell, enabling them to detect a wide range of substances. This extraordinary capability makes them valuable assets in enhancing security measures and ensuring the safety and well-being of individuals. As such, introducing sniffer dogs in schools and workplaces can offer significant benefits.
Regular searches not only help to reduce the impact that drugs may have on your business, but they also show a duty of care towards your students, clients or employees.
Our drug detection dogs use two different methods – passive and proactive – when undertaking searches for drugs.
A passive sniffer dog works on the lead with its handler and does not make direct contact with anyone.
The dog will scan people, whether that be crowds, people entering a festival, or staff in a workplace, and can detect drugs before they enter your premises or event. If the drug detection dog picks up a scent, it follows the individual and then sits in front of the potential culprit. This guides security personnel or police officers and give them grounds to search that individual.
Proactive sniffer dogs generally search large areas and different terrains, such as classrooms, accommodation, festivals and farms, and work much quicker than people.
They can perform searches while off the lead when it is safe for them to do so. Due to the trust between our dogs and handlers, as well as the extensive training they have undertaken, the handler is in control throughout the whole search process, even when the dog is working off the lead.
All our experienced handlers and sniffer dog teams have received extensive training and are accredited by the National Association of Security Dog Users (NASDU) and hold a Security Industry Authority (SIA) Door Supervisor licence. This means you can rely on us to provide a professional and discreet drugs search service.
We will discuss your requirements and use the best solution to meet your needs.
Our drugs detection dogs are expertly trained to indicate the presence of multiple types of drugs, including:
No. We are not legally allowed to touch or remove the drugs. Our service is to make a client aware that there are illegal substances at a location. It will then be down to the client to implement their own drugs procedure. There are situations where the police are present during a search, so they subsequently take over if drugs are found.
Dogs are not trained to detect vaping products and we do not provide dogs to specifically search for vape paraphernalia; however, drug dogs may detect vaping products when carrying out searches for illegal substances through cross contamination.
We fully believe that prevention is better than cure and bringing our drug detection dogs into an education establishment is a positive safeguarding practice.
Working across the healthcare sector, we provide tobacco and drugs sniffer dogs to help minimise the presence of narcotic substances.
No matter the sport, utilising our patrol and sniffer dogs provides a visible deterrent for criminal activity and ensures the safety of visitors.
Working with businesses we can help provide a safe environment for employees, customers and clients using patrol or sniffer dogs.
Our dogs and handlers support efforts to reduce public disorder and criminal activity.
Licensed Premises
Criminals are deterred when farms or agricultural businesses have consistent security patrols or conduct regular searches for drugs.
Agriculture
Our sniffer dogs and canine patrols are a highly efficient deterrent for criminal activity.
Entertainment Venues
We can help you protect your business interests and safeguard staff and guests from criminal activity by providing patrol and drugs detection dogs.
Hospitality
Our detection and patrol dogs can be used for vehicle, premises and vessel searches, passenger screening, check-point operations, container sweeps, and more.
Maritime
Our drug detection dogs are highly trained to detect illegal Class A and Class B substances.
Our tobacco detection dogs are trained to detect real and counterfeit tobacco and search for contraband.
Whether it's crowd control or premises protection, patrol dogs are visible, effective and act as a deterrent.
We are proud to be an associate company member of the National Association of Security Dog Users (NASDU).
NASDU promotes high standards, excellent training and ongoing education in the private security dog sector. We abide by the guidance & recommendations contained within British Standard 8517-1 for General Purpose Dogs & BS8517-2 for Detection Dogs. All our handlers are NASDU certified.
This British Standard sets the standard for screening security personnel working in an environment where safety of people, goods or property is essential.
It includes data security, sensitive and service contracts and confidential records.
Our dog handlers hold Security Industry Authority (SIA) licences.
The SIA is a statutory organisation that is responsible for regulating the private security industry in the UK.
All our handlers have undergone a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which searches for criminal records and activity.
As we regularly provide services to the education and healthcare sectors, the enhanced check shows that our handlers are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.
