Sentence examples for detection dog from inspiring English sources
noun
A specialized form of police dog; trained to use its sense of smell to detect and locate evidence of illicit substances, from illegal drugs to explosives materials, which may be carried on a person in their effects.
Zanjeer ("Chain", or "Shackles"), a detection dog who detected arms and ammunition used in 1993 Mumbai (Bombay) serial explosions.
A reduction in false negatives is particularly valuable in situations, such as when a detection dog is used for searching for a live person, detecting explosives, or identifying perpetrators of a crime.
Maybe she's not a born detection dog.
Sarbi, a former army explosives detection dog that survived enemy gunfire and explosions in Afghanistan, succumbed to brain cancer.
Not all will end up as a narcotics detection dog, like Midge, a six-pound Chihuahua and rat terrier mix in Geauga County, Ohio.
The Labrador was a detection dog; the shepherds and the Malinois were patrol dogs though some, like Rothschild's German shepherd, Danz, did both.
To be sure, detection dogs, and explosive-detection dog teams in particular, are extremely good at finding the odors for which they search.
But that could be deadly for a chemical-detection dog and its handler if the dog came upon chemical weapons.
In the second, an officer and his drug-detection dog, Aldo, were on patrol.
In a controlled setting, one can make an objective measurement of how many times the alert of a drug-detection dog was correct.
Fearing a fatal encounter with paprika, Ms. Kysel's parents and grandparents chipped in to buy her an allergy-detection dog, which works much like a narcotics-sniffing dog.
