The canine¹ companions of airport security staff in Manchester are quick to spot sausages and cheese in passengers' luggage but are failing to sniff² out class A drugs, a report has found.

 

一份报告指出，曼彻斯特机场安检人员的犬类同伴最擅长在乘客行李中发现香肠和奶酪，却嗅不出A类毒品。

 

Inspectors⁴ said sniffer dogs at Manchester airport have failed to find any drugs or illegally smuggled⁵ cash. The report also found there were major faults with immigration controls, which allowed scores of passengers into the UK without the correct border checks.

 

The dogs failed to spot a single person carrying heroin⁶ or cocaine⁷ over the border during a six-month period studied by the independent chief inspector³ of borders and immigration. But one dog, trained to detect illegal animal products, often found "small amounts of cheese or sausages" carried by holidaymakers, the report said.

 

Inspectors said that although heroin and cocaine were assessed as "very high priority" for the search team, no class A drugs had been found by the dogs between November 2014 and June 2015.

 

The review assessed airport border checks by 286 staff, and the Home Office, which oversees⁸ the checks, said improvements must be made.

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