The New Jersey Department of Corrections trains dogs to sniff out hidden cellphones.
The K-9 Unit of the New Jersey Department of Corrections trained seven cell-phone-sniffing dogs by putting a whole bunch of cell-phone parts in a plastic box to create a kind of sachet of cell-phone scent for use in imprinting.
The basic, pervasive cell-phone smell that built up in the closed box was powerful—a sweetish, metallic, ozoney, weird robotic reek.
To the enthusiastic dogs who search for illegal cell phones inside New Jersey’s thirteen state prisons, the smell of a cell phone is bliss. They love to follow it, love finding its source even more.
They found 135 cell phones, 128 chargers, and innumerable earpieces, batteries, and other items in the first few months of searching.
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