Dogs to target cash-carrying crooksCHRIS GORMAN/CUSTOMS More dogs like Marney (pictured) are headed for airports and mail centres to detect cash and drugs. The $500,000 funding was allocated as part of the 2016 budget and will lift the number of detection dogs to 18. The specially trained dogs will target criminals smuggling large sums of money into New Zealand, Customs Minister Nicky Wagner said. Customs will spend half a million dollars on five new detector dogs that can sniff out drugs and cash. READ MORE: Customs dog can smell your cashAnd already this year alone there has been more than $1.5 million intercepted by cash detector dogs.

Source: Stuff June 25, 2016 23:25 UTC