Seven-year-old Skip – who received his certification in 2019 – works, among other things, with person and vehicle searches at Landvetter and in the ferry terminals in Gothenburg, searches containers and courier and freight shipments, and participates in house searches.
Skip has, with driver Ruth Baciu, "become a well-coordinated team that, over the years, has had a fine development", writes the jury.
Baciu says that it is Skip's exceptional nose and his determination that make him so skilled.
"Now I can read him and see exactly that the person has a dog at home and there is food in the bag, but there is narcotics. When he finds narcotics, he marks, then looks at me to see that I'm with him, and then marks again", she says in a press release.
Skip has, among other things, found 127 kilos of amphetamine and 183 kilos of cannabis in a hidden, rebuilt space on a smaller truck, and two kilos of opium that was packaged to resemble chocolate sweets.
The award is presented by the Swedish Kennel Club and the Customs Service since 1993.
