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full screen This year’s drug detection dog Skip with driver Ruth Baciu. Photo: Emma Wildheim
His accurate nose has contributed to seizures that correspond to a societal benefit of more than SEK 502 million – now the English springer spaniel Skip is awarded the drug detection dog of the year award.
Seven-year-old Skip – who received his certification in 2019 – works, among other things, with person and vehicle searches at Landvetter and in the ferry terminals in Gothenburg, searches containers and courier and freight shipments and participates in house searches.
Skip, with driver Ruth Baciu, “has become a well-knit crew that has had a nice development during their years together,” writes the jury.
Baciu says it’s Skip’s exceptional nose and determination that make him so good.
“Now I can read him and see exactly that that person has a dog at home and there is food in the bag, but there were drugs there. When he finds drugs, he marks, then he looks at me to see that I’m there, and then he marks again,” she says in a press release.
Among other things, Skip has found 127 kilos of amphetamines and 183 kilos of cannabis in a hidden converted space on a smaller truck and two kilos of opium that was packaged to look like chocolate candy.
The award has been awarded by the Swedish Kennel Club and the Swedish Customs Service since 1993.