Drugs: Postal Services

(asked on 14th May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will made an assessment of the potential merits of deploying canine detection units at Post Office depots to detect the shipment of drugs from online vendors.


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Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 16th May 2018

Border Force Central Region Canine Detection units in conjunction with Heathrow’s unit regularly deploy to both postal depots at Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre and Coventry. The dogs deployed are trained on Drugs, Cash, Tobacco and Firearms

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