Grand Forks Police show off police dog prowess

Grand Forks, ND (WDAY TV) -- Dogs help out police officers in many ways, whether it's finding drugs, a suspect, or a missing person - but there's one thing they can't sniff out.

Since ingredients in synthetic drugs are changing all the time, it could be hard to train a police dog to detect them. The Grand Forks police department did a K-9 Demonstration for OLLIE, a non-profit group from UND. People had the chance to see the dog track and find drugs and take down a pretend suspect.

Andrew Stein - Grand Forks Police Department: "When a person thinks of a police drug dog you are looking at the major common narcotics, marijuana, hash, cocaine, things along those lines. In my experience I haven't necessarily seen the synthetics trained as far as drug detection with a dog."

Officers say training is a continuous process with the dogs and it usually starts at a young age.

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