Smell tracking down suspects and missing persons...Police body odor evidence dog activity

[Anchor]
Have you heard of body odor proof dogs?

It is a police dog that specializes in sniffing people and finds dead bodies or suspects in violent cases.

Thanks to his excellent sense of smell, he is also active in the search for missing people.

I'm reporter Kim Kyung-im of KCTV Jeju Broadcasting.

[Reporter]
The police check the condition of the elderly man in a furrow between the lush bushes.

This is the scene where an elderly man with dementia in his 80s, who was reported missing on the 30th of last month, was found two days after the search.

At that time, the main person who visited the elderly man was a body odor proof dog that tracked the smell of people.

Body odor proof dogs appeared in the Oreum area.

Following the instructions of the trainer, he runs to the forest without hesitation, travels throughout the wide forest, and begins to smell it.

Training is in full swing under the guise of sniffing out lost visitors.

[Police official: This is a police dog. It does not bite or hurt people.

Soon, they find the person who was hiding in the forest and bark loudly to announce the location.

Unlike drug and explosive detection dogs, body odor proof dogs specialize in smelling humans.

As a result, they are not only in charge of finding bodies or suspects in violent incidents, but also searching for missing persons.

It is a body odor proof dog specialized in smelling humans. Even in such a thick forest, you can easily find missing people by using smell.

There are a total of 29 body odor proof dogs belonging to the National Police Agency nationwide.

Currently, two Diablo and Fernando are in operation at the Jeju National Police Agency.

In particular, it is possible to effectively search and save lives using its excellent sense of smell even in places where drones or humans are difficult to access due to many obstacles, so more than 12 cases are put into the field on average a year.

[Song Yun-ho / Jeju National Police Agency's Scientific Investigation Department: This dog's sense of smell is more than 10,000 times greater than that of a human being in a wide field or out of sight, which is very helpful at the scene of the disappearance]

Body odor proof dogs that track human odors are expected to be active as they have also shown results in the search for missing people and saving lives.

I'm Kim Kyung-im from KCTV News.

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Courtesy of the screen: Jeju National Police Agency