Fewer police sniffer dog searches but most still don't find drugs

By Sean Nicholls
Updated September 26 2016 - 3:13am, first published 12:00am
Police sniffer dogs at work at St Peters train station in Sydney ... more than two-thirds of searches do not find drugs Photo: Janie Barrett
Police sniffer dogs at work at St Peters train station in Sydney ... more than two-thirds of searches do not find drugs Photo: Janie Barrett

The number of people subjected to sniffer dog searches by NSW police has fallen to a five-year low, new figures reveal, but the proportion where no drugs are found remains stubbornly high.

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