Odor Biodetection in Combating Drug-Related Crimes
Odorological biodetection, as a unique ability of dogs, allows them to beused in different spheres of human activity, including in the fight against drug crime. However, the scientific and methodological support of this activity does not meet the needs of practice. In textbooks of criminalistics, in sections of criminalistic technology, tactics and methods of investigation there are only very brief and completely meaningless references to the possibility of using service-search dogs in carrying out certain investigative actions and operational-search activities in the process of detection and investigation of crimes related to drug trafficking and other controlled substances, and even then not in all cases. The article presents the main problems of canine detection and investigation of drug crimes and suggests ways to solve them.