NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller says drugs are found after a positive indication from a drug dog 40 per cent of the time, and in the remaining cases, a majority of people admitted to having had drugs in their pocket. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
Remarks in the coroner's report into the drug-related deaths of young people at music festivals also call into question the police measure of drug dog accuracy.
However, as already covered, searches after a drug dog indication result in drugs being found only 24 per cent of the time. She added that drugs were not considered difficult to purchase inside festivals and venues where dog operations were occurring.study of almost 2,000 Australian festival-goers conducted by researchers from the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University suggests the majority of people carrying drugs into music festivals go undetected by drug-detection dogs.
However, evidence from as early as the 2006 NSW Ombudsman's review of the use of drug detection dogs suggest that the dogs have been ineffective in targeting supply offences.a trafficable amount of drugs . Just 19 led to a successful prosecution for supply. More recent evidence also suggests it was rare for drug dogs to detect drugs intended for supply, such as aby researchers from the University of New South Wales which looked at instances where a drug dog indication led to a police report over the 10 years to 2018.
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