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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Tulare County District Attorney’s Office is introducing its first Electronic Detection K-9.
Tor is simply a 2-year-old Black Labrador Retriever named aft an country of the acheronian web. His handler Criminal Investigator Tony Benitez says Tor is specially trained to assistance successful the bureau’s investigations.
“You’ve heard of assorted scent detection dogs before, right? They person narcotic dogs, weaponry dogs, things similar that. It’s the aforesaid benignant of concept, but he’s focused solely connected integer devices,” Benitez said.
Tor tin sniff retired compartment phones, USB drives, micro SD cards, computers and cameras. He is the lone 1 connected the squad with the chemoreceptor for the job.
“These devices specifically, they person a chemic called TTPO: Triphenylphosphine Oxide. That’s really what he’s keying successful on,” Benitez said.
So, erstwhile investigators raid someone’s instrumentality looking for illicit worldly specified arsenic kid pornography, Tor and Benitez tin spell successful and marque definite they don’t miss anything.
“It’s precise casual to miss that evidence, right? I mean, you cognize the size of a micro SD card. It’s the size of a fingernail. How casual is it to place thing similar that oregon fell it betwixt anything,” Benitez said.
Tor is lone 2 years old, truthful helium inactive has immoderate puppy energy, but Benitez says, erstwhile it's clip to get to work, helium knows what to do.
“Not lone is helium a detection dog, he’s really a comfortableness canine arsenic well. So, successful a hunt warrant situation erstwhile we really person victims - children successful a residence, he’s going to beryllium conscionable astonishing to person there,” Benitez said.
He is the agency’s archetypal K-9 with those peculiar skills, truthful they look guardant to seeing him successful action.
