英國"吃貨"緝毒犬：專緝奶酪香腸不緝毒
Airport sniffer dogs find cheese and sausages – but fail to spot drugs
The canine companions of airport security staff in Manchester are quick to spot sausages and cheese in passengers' luggage but are failing to sniff out class A drugs, a report has found.
Inspectors said sniffer dogs at Manchester airport have failed to find any drugs or illegally smuggled cash. The report also found there were major faults with immigration controls, which allowed scores of passengers into the UK without the correct border checks.
緝查人員稱,曼徹斯特機場的緝毒犬找不到任何毒品或非法走私的現金.報告也發現出入境管控存在很大漏洞,導致許多入境英國的旅客沒有接受正規的邊防檢查.
The dogs failed to spot a single person carrying heroin or cocaine over the border during a six-month period studied by the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration. But one dog, trained to detect illegal animal products, often found "small amounts of cheese or sausages" carried by holidaymakers, the report said.
英國邊境與移民管理局首席獨立緝查員調查發現,在長達六個月的時間內,這些緝毒犬沒有一次在邊檢中嗅出攜帶海洛因或可卡因的人.但報告稱,有一只受訓專門探測非法動物制品的狗,卻經常能發現度假者攜帶的"少量奶酪和香腸".
Inspectors said that although heroin and cocaine were assessed as "very high priority" for the search team, no class A drugs had been found by the dogs between November 2014 and June 2015.
緝查員稱,盡管海洛因和可卡因是被評為搜查隊應搜查的"最高優先級"的危險物品,但在2014年11月到2015年6月期間,緝毒犬們沒有發現一例A級毒品.
The review assessed airport border checks by 286 staff, and the Home Office, which oversees the checks, said improvements must be made.
The airport, the UK's third largest, has six detector dogs and new kennels, which cost £1.25m. One dog made "accurate detections" – but most were of cheese or sausages, which the report said was a poor return on the annual cost of running the canine team.
曼徹斯特機場是英國第三大機場, 有六只緝毒犬和新狗舍, 共花費125萬英鎊. 其中一只雖然能'準確探測', 但多數情況下找到的卻是奶酪或香腸. 報告稱, 與這群緝毒犬每年的花費比起來,這樣的回報少得可憐.
Over the period, the dogs helped seize more than 46,000 cigarettes, 60kg of tobacco, 181kg of illegal meat, and £28,000 in cash. The dogs successfully detected illegal drugs on three occasions, finding small amounts of class B substances. They also found tablets of human growth hormone, Viagra and Bromazepam.
在調查期間,這群緝毒犬還幫助查獲了超過4.6萬根香煙、60公斤煙草、181公斤的非法肉制品,和2.8萬英鎊的非法現金,還三次成功找出了少量的非法B級毒品.它們還找出過人類生長激素藥片、偉哥和溴基安定.
Other elements of border checks were also reviewed, with the report finding that:
邊檢中的其它要素也受到檢查,報告發現：
- A significant number of Border Force staff at the airport were not fully trained in immigration work, leading to delays and inefficiencies in the processing of passengers.
