Middlesex County Sheriff's Office Adds New K-9 Officer to the Force
Ajax is a drug-sniffing dog partnered with Sheriff's Officer Joseph Cruz.
The Middlesex County Sheriff's Office has announced a new member of the department's K-9 team. Ajax is a former seeing-eye dog who was trained over 14 weeks at the Essex County K-9 Training Academy, according to a press release from the Sheriff's Office. Ajax was trained to recognize the scent of marijuana, cocaine, crack, heroin and hash through a process known as "drug imprinting," described as follows by the Sheriff's Office: "Drug imprinting is a process by which the dog is trained to associate the scent of a drug with “play”. The dog must be highly motivated to play with his trainer for hours at a time. When he goes out on a call, his instinct is to detect the scent of drugs which he associates with play. If he finds it, he is then …
joan saccenti
7:29 pm on Saturday, October 22, 2011
where exactly would an escape on Farrington Lake take you? Thank you EB police--good job! more ›