New TSA Canine Teams Will Significantly Enhance Air Cargo Security at Dulles Airport
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TSA introduced three new TSA canine teams to enhance explosives detection capabilities at Virginia's Dulles International Airport (IAD) air cargo facilities. The Dulles teams began training in January and graduated after a 10-week course at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. The teams have been certified in their local environment and are now fully operational.
The agency will train and certify more than 400 explosives detection canine teams, composed of one dog and one handler, during the next two years. Eighty-five of these teams will be TSA employee-led and will primarily search cargo bound for passenger-carrying aircraft.
These TSA canine handlers will complement the more than 500 TSA-certified state and local law enforcement teams currently deployed nationwide to 75 airports and 14 mass transit systems.
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The new teams will enhance explosives detection in the air cargo environment and allow TSA to deploy them anywhere in the transportation system in minutes when there is a heightened threat.
Additional TSA employee-led teams will be deployed to airports with the greatest volume of cargo on passenger-carrying aircraft later this year. These teams will raise the total TSA-certified canine explosive detection team population to more than 800 dogs from coast to coast in airports and mass transit systems.
