‘Dex’ the cell phone sniffing dog helps deputies at new Inmate Housing Facility

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

(WGNO) – It’s out with the old and in with the new as prisoners are transferred to the new Inmate Housing Facility Monday. It’s a new chapter complete with new staff too. “Dex” is the sheriff department’s new crime sniffing dog. It’s his job to sniff out contraband cell phones and he’s got a ‘paw’ up on the competition. “We’ve developed technologies to identify cell phones on people if the cell phone is turned on, but if the cell phone is turned off, our most sophisticated technologies are helpless,” says Metropolitan Crime Commission President Rafael Goyeneche. Research shows a dog’s sense of smell is about one-thousand times sharper than that of a human. “Dex” can detect cell phones if they’re turned off. “A cell phone gives off a property, a scent and it’s enough to pick up and it’s worked and worked well,” says JOHN CASBON with Iberia Bank. “Dex” would not be employed without full donations from the bank. Cell phone contraband is a big problem in prisons across America and it’s been especially well documented in New Orleans. Some facilities that closed Monday are more than eighty years old and built during a time in history when cell phones […]

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