The Blaine County Sheriff's Office has a drug detection dog trained to detect marijuana, hashish, crack, cocaine, methanphetamines and heroin. During a search drug dogs respond aggressively, trying to get at the substance by scratching and pawing.
Dogs are an essential and valuable police tool.
They bring a variety of skills to police work that not only enhance the deputy sheriff's capabilities to serve the public, but are cost effective to the taxpayer. The police dog becomes the deputy's partner on patrol. The K-9 can effectively protect the deputy and his presence can deter potentially violent situations. Police dog's skills are not limited to enforcing the law. Their noses allow them to find children, senior citizens, hunters, and others that have become lost or disoriented.