Scents and Sense-Ability
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Traditionally, dogs contributed to police work by stalking a suspect’s track. During the latter part of the twentieth century, investigators found a new way to employ the canine’s olfactory skills: perform a scent lineup to connect a person with a crime via scent evidence. Dogs trained for scent identification are “specialist, biological devices,” according to Tomasz Bednarek, the Head of the Warsaw Metropolitan Forensic Laboratory and an expert on oso-mology – a system of human scent identification.
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