Dogs with a nose for pirate DVDs take the lead in police campaign

Sniffer dogs trained to detect the plastics used in DVDs are spearheading the police’s fight against the flourishing £200 million trade in pirated films.

Last week The Times joined Lucky and Flo, two black labradors, and their handlers on their first operation in London tackling the illicit market. Britain now has the world’s biggest black market in pirate films after the US, with an estimated 49.5 million counterfeit DVDs sold last year, compared with 32.5 million in 2006, and earning the bootleggers well over £200 million.

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