All That Glitters
is not Gold, and all white powders are not drugs.
As Australian Broadcasting is busy looking for bodies of water [see below], the BBC steps up to tell us: Powder mix-up fools sniffer dogs.
Several new Melbourne police drug dogs were trained to locate talcum powder instead of cocaine due to an “anomaly” in the police evidence system. Australian authorities have started an investigation to determine why bags that should have contained cocaine seized in drug arrests are filled with baby powder.
While admitting that the dogs will have to be re-trained, a spokesman indicated that in the meantime the dogs could be quite useful in finding lost toddlers.
