Parliament to be covered by 'Operation Golden Nose' to sniff out terrorists

Sniffer dogs are used to sniff out undesirable material and men at crowded places like airports and these specially trained canines are an invaluable help to law enforcement agencies. Therefore, in order to ensure safety of the parliament and its people, the Ministry of Home Affairs has approved the deployment of crack canine dog. This has been named 'Operation Golden Nose' and its main purpose is to prevent terror attack on Parliament.
This has been reported in zeennews.india.com dated 17 July 2016.

At present there are multiple ring security system in place in the Parliament but, in spite of existing methods, the possibility of somebody sneaking in explosives in innocuous articles and placing it in areas like under the tables or in flower pots, cannot be ruled out. Hence, these highly trained crack canines are necessary. These canines are trained to identify if someone has even touched an explosive.
These dogs belong to the ITBP and, they have reportedly been requested by the Parliament Security Services (PSS) to deploy their crack K9 units. These ITBP dogs are believed to be one of the most highly trained in the world and the US Navy Seals had selected them to assist in protecting US President Barack Obama during his visit to India last year.


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South Africa trains elephants to take up jobs of sniffer dogs

#snifferdogs #explosives #poachers #africanelephants South Africa is breaking new ground by training elephants to take over jobs of sniffer dogs by making use of their super-strength sense of smell to sniff out explosives and poachers as reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 25 February 2015.
The project is supported by the U.S. Army Research Office who have been inspired after watching elephants in Angola using their trunks to help avoid areas full of land mines that had been left over from decades of civil war.
As explained by Sean Hensman, operator of Adventures with Elephants game ranch in South Africa, the nose of an elephant has amazing properties – this becomes all the more apparent when we imagine mammoths that had to find food through the ice.
During tests conducted by the U.S. Army Research Office, a 17-year-old male elephant was walked past a row of buckets- one of which would have a swab laced with TNT scent stapled to the bottom. The elephant had to insert his trunk into each bucket and, he was taught to stop and raise a front leg when he came across the one with the swab.
After some tries, he managed to get the bucket right every time and he was rewarded like a sniffer dog – his reward was the marula fruit.