Border Patrol Dogs Helped Detect Drugs at the Border
At the ‘Smilnytsia’ checkpoint, a service dog named Zlata detected drugs on an Odessa resident who was traveling by regular bus outside of Ukraine. Two packets containing a substance resembling marijuana were found in the 48-year-old man’s pants pocket.
Incident on the ‘Przemyśl-Kyiv’ Train
Another incident occurred during the inspection of the ‘Przemyśl-Kyiv’ train. Service dog Lokki signaled near the restroom, where a zip bag with a gray-green substance, possibly marijuana, was later found in the structural elements.
In both cases, the border guards sent a notification to the National Police regarding the detection of criminal offense indicators as stipulated in Article 309 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – ‘Illegal production, manufacture, purchase, storage, transportation, or forwarding of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, or their analogs without the purpose of sale’.