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Human scent identification by police dogs

Authors: Sophie MARCHAL, Barbara FERRY

Publication date: March 10, 2017

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Taken together, our data show that the rigor with which training is followed by SDPTS dogs results in very high olfactory recognition sensitivity and specificity scores, with dogs able to match the reference odor to the target odor in over 85% of cases on average, regardless of the combination used, and never making any matching errors (100% specificity). According to Jezierski et al. , detection scores depend on various factors, such as the method of odor presentation (reference, comparison and target), the type of odor...

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