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UKAD To Use Sniffer Dogs To Catch Drug Cheats

UK Anti-Doping is "planning to use a sniffer dog" at sports events and training facilities to "help track down drugs cheats and suppliers of performance-enhancing substances," according to Martyn Ziegler of the LONDON TIMES. The agency has "already used a sniffer dog" belonging to the National Crime Agency in a raid on an illicit supplier of steroids and UKAD Chair Trevor Pearce said that one "could be used in events or training facilities to detect banned drugs or act as a deterrent." Pearce: "We are looking at innovative disruptive activities that could range from a bloke in a UKAD jacket at an event, as an obvious deterrent, to using sniffer dogs to detect money or doping products." The sniffer dog is one of 32 “disruption tactics” that UKAD will consider using. Others include “double bluffs” about whether testers will turn up at sports events or not. UKAD will use a new national anti-doping policy to be announced in September to "secure greater access to venues and training facilities" (LONDON TIMES, 4/17).

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