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CANNABIS RESIN WITH an estimated street value of €319,000 was seized by the Revenue’s Customs Service at Rosslare today with a little help from its new sniffer dog, Ralph.
A Ukranian national was arrested during the operation.
The 53 kilogrammes of cannabis resin was seized when officers stopped and searched a car that was disembarking a ferry from France at Rosslare Europort.
The routine profiling involved the new sniffer dog, named Ralph, who joined the Customs team fortnight ago and was able to give an indication of the presence of the cannabis resin in the car.
A scan of the vehicle by an x-ray scanner led to the drugs being discovered concealed in the car.
The arrested man is currently being held at Wexford Garda Station.
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Good job Ralph!!
A spliffer dog
Good stuff Ralph. Class dogs them
Saw on TV a while ago a police springer spaniel had to get the glass of water that had one drop of blood in it from a line up of 10 glasses, got it first time, amazing dogs.
Class A dogs
Maith an madra
That’s ruff
Great collar in fairness , I wonder did he get a lead.
Ralph better wear a disguise in public now.
Hash addicts Eugene get a grip will ya
A nice bigbone and a big bowl milk for Ralph this evening.
Atta boy Ralph! You clever dog!! …and only a few days in the job:-) A Faster learner than most of us humans:-)
Wow. What a massive contribution to society. A bit of hash removed from the streets.
I’d say that dog contributes more to society than a lot of addicts and dealers
Addicts and dealers? Your taking about hash here, not heroin.
Could we not teach him to roll a joint instead? It would be better for everyone…
My other three quarters can sniff drink of me from a mile away :)
Get him sniffing out alcohol from underage kids, domestic abusers, or chronic alcoholics, all of which are far more prevalent issues in Ireland. But we wont do that, because Alcohol is the people’s drug of choice!
yeah and he will be sniffing out people for using mouthwash then aswell. granted not all mouthwash contains alcohol but my point still stands.
At last a realistic valuation of a drug find
If the guards found this it would be
( I have put my little finger to my lip )
1 million euro !! :-)
i heard this before but im not sure if its true, do they get the dogs addicted to what they sniff for?
I don’t think they get addicted (I could be wrong) but they have to retire them very young (about 4 or 5) in case they get cancer in the nose.
That tail is just not true…but I hope that Ralph reaps the full benefits of a garda pension.
@notsoright
What an apt name, if you read the article you would see that it’s actually a customs dog not a Garda dog
Cancer of the nose from what are they sniffing out the hash or smoking it
I’d say sniffing crusties for a few years would be enough for any dog, he’d deserve the early retirement!
Well done Ralph, stifle supply and the price goes higher! Making criminals even more money in the un winnable lost drug war!
We created the demon of the black market seller of drugs by making a black market.
As soon as anything in high demand becomes illegal, there will always be people willing to take the low risk of getting caught to make a lot money.
They may have caught one Ukrainian man, with a large but relatively small amount of cannabis, but the fact is they haven’t (and couldn’t) report the many people they haven’t caught that will keep the country’s sellers and users of drugs ticking over just fine like it always has been.
Gangland murders occur when people owe money to dealers or when people want to take over a territory
It is our irresponsible drugs laws that allow any black market entrepreneur to try and bring anything they like in, contaminate/cut the product until it is much more dangerous than the real thing, and make a fortune. This fortune then goes on the human trafficked sex trade, guns, harder drugs, etc.
All that our drug laws do is make sure drugs are more dangerous, non-violent users lives are ruined with drug convictions and gangsters have profits to kill each other over.
I say we take responsibility, regulate all drugs and any profits made can be put into the rehabilitation and not the imprisonment of addicts.
There are more serious issues in this country than cannabis.Serious crime like stabbings for example.Cannabis should be taxed and regulated like tobacco.And it is less dangerous than both tobacco and alcohol.
Stabbings are mostly likely happening because of gang culture which is happening because of drug prohibition.
Ralph’s a “sniffer”??? Hmmm……
That’s one efficient member of the Gardai deserving a lifetime pension. Hope is is signed up!
And again you get it wrong
I’d love a dog like that, I’d call him Stoney
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