Andro The Dog, The Revealer Of 17 Kg Of Meth And Thousands Of Happy Five Pills In The Gas Cylinder

Andro the dog (Twitter beacukaiRI)

JAKARTA - Andro's sharp smell deserves thumbs up. The sniffer dogs belonging to the Directorate General of Customs and Excise also uncovered the smuggling case of tens of kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and thousands of happy five pills.

The K-9's olfactory power has indeed been tempered through high training. Even those illicit items stored in the gas cylinder can still be smelled by Andro.

"Inside the two gas cylinders, a total of 17 kg of crystal methamphetamine was found and 1,000 happy five pills," wrote the RI Customs Twitter account, as reported by Djawanews, Sunday, May 9.

The incident occurred in the waters of Burung Island, 27 April. The illegal goods were brought by the KM Tohor Jaya ship from Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia destined for Sungai Guntung, Riau Province.

Andro's achievements are not only that. In 2018, Andro managed to sniff out crystal methamphetamine that would be smuggled into Indonesia. The amount is not joking, the total of methamphetamine reaches more than 1 ton.

Use of Dogs at Customs

Starting from 1978, DGCE sent 1 (one) Indonesian Customs and Excise official to participate in the introduction of the sniffer dog program at Front Royal, Washington-USA. After that, 4 Customs and Excise officials were sent back to attend education about narcotics in the USA in January-February 1979.

After several educational opportunities regarding narcotics, the Indonesian Customs and Excise finally got the opportunity to borrow 2 Narcotics Tracking Dogs (APN) from Malaysian Customs and 2 APNs from Singapore Customs to be used in programs to prevent the entry of narcotics into Indonesian customs areas.