Suburban shopping centres hit by taxpayer-funded drug dog operations

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Sniffer dog operations have been conducted at two Sydney shopping centres in the past nine days. 9News

Mr Shoebridge questioned the effectiveness of the operations at shopping centres, suggesting it would only find end-users and not traffickers.

Drug dog operations cost taxpayers an estimated minimum of $1100 per hour, based on NSW police standard operating procedures, which use drug dogs at a cost-recovery rate of $152.20 and $23.70 per hour for officers and dogs, respectively. "This is the recommended minimum and depending upon the area and size of the operation, it can be increased accordingly.

In August, it was revealed the number of public strip searches – often associated with the use of drug dogs - increased 1879 per cent over past decadein 2017/18 compared to the 277 between December 2005 and November 2006.

 

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What do murderers smell like?

where does this madness logically end? Police with sniffer dogs knocking on the door of innocent citizens without a warrant?

They are looking for drugs are they? 😂😂😂.....💣💥more like it...

I guarantee they will make more arrests in Bondi Westfield.

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