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UK: Drugs lesson number one: beware of the dog Richard Eden The Telegraph Thursday 17 Jan 2002 BONNIE, a police sniffer dog, became very excited when she was taken along to a school to illustrate a talk on the danger of drugs. She began sniffing pupils as they filed out after the talk by her handler at Ilfracombe Community College, in north Devon. When David Humphries, the principal, was told, he agreed to allow the dog to search the locker room, where four small amounts of cannabis were found. As a result, a 15-year-old boy, who is alleged to have been caught with drugs before, has been charged with possessing cannabis and three others have received a police reprimand. All have been suspended from school. Mr Humphries said the dog handler, who is also a drugs expert, had been invited to the school to illustrate how easy it was to detect cannabis. "The police were concerned that, with all the talk about proposals to downgrade the classification of cannabis, students might mistakenly believe that it was now legal to use the drug. "I want to emphasise that the college does not have a major drugs problem. But neither are we so naive as to think that it is immune from the drugs culture in British society." Sgt Alan Mobbs, of Devon and Cornwall police, said that Bonnie, a two-year-old pointer, smelled the cannabis as the pupils left the classroom. "A search was made of the lockers and very small amounts of drugs were found in four of them." Sgt Mobbs said that Bonnie was the force's first dog that did not need to be ordered to search before it began detecting drugs. "She has only recently started working with the force and is unusual in that she will detect the presence of drugs of her own accord."
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