Treasury written question – answered at on 19 October 2005.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many specialist detector dogs are in use by Customs and Excise in Northern Ireland; and what they are specifically used to detect.
Detector dog teams based at Manchester and Hull provide support to Northern Ireland. Customs confirm that since April 2004, there have been 14 deployment exercises to Northern Ireland. Most deployments consist of two dogs, able to detect drugs and cash. Two of the deployments were for drugs and tobacco.
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