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SEARCHNorth Carolina-based company K2 Solutions has trademarked its Person-Borne Explosives Detection Dogs. The term means the dog can detect explosives being carried on the body of a moving person. Click through to see these K-9s at work.
To find out more about K2 Solutions' Person-Borne Explosive Detection Dogs, read "Training the BombHunters."
K2 Solutions is one of the largest providers of explosive detection dogs in the United States. (Photo: K2 Solutions)
The K2 Solutions training facility covers 125 acres of grounds. (Photo: K2 Solutions)
Labrador retrievers are excellent for bomb detection because they have a strong prey drive and they don't scare most people. (Photo: K2 Solutions)
Experts say it's one thing for a dog to find planted explosives in a building, which are giving off steady olfactory clues to their presence, and another for that same dog to follow the scent of the explosives through a crowd of moving people. (Photo: K2 Solutions)
According to K2 Solutions Program Manager Karl Smith, searches by explosive detection dogs have until recently covered primarily static objects. "We checked trash cans, cars, desks, closets, and things like that," he says. "Now we have developed a dog that's capable of finding the odor of explosives and trailing that odor on a moving object, including people." (Photo: K2 Solutions)
Person-Borne Explosive Detection Dogs can find planted explosives or follow a bomber walking through a crowd. (Photo: K2 Solutions)