UK Anti-Doping is planning to use a sniffer dog at sports events and training facilities to help track down drugs cheats and suppliers of performance-enhancing substances. The agency has already used a sniffer dog belonging to the National Crime Agency (NCA) in a raid on an illicit supplier of steroids and Trevor Pearce, the Ukad chairman, said one could be used in events or training facilities to detect banned drugs or act as a deterrent. Pearce said: “We are looking at innovative disruptive activities that could range from a bloke in a Ukad jacket at an event, as an obvious deterrent, to using sniffer dogs to detect money or doping products. “If we were allowed access there’s no reason why those sorts of tactics couldn’t…

Source: The Times April 17, 2018 16:00 UTC