Jammu, April 26 -- The measures taken by the Shopian Police in containing the drug menace and tightening noose around the suppliers by launching narcotic-specific cordon and search operations (CASO) in identified hotspots and deploying sniffer dogs across a network of checkpoints to target drug movement are likely to bring positive results. The cops in the district deserve kudos for such out-of-the-box initiative, which was not experimented before to curb the drug menace in J&K.

The utility of sniffer dogs is well known in doing such jobs as these are extensively used at airports by the quarantine departments of various countries especially Australia, where the government is very particular about stopping the disease spread by the viruses ...