SoCal K-9 Teams Train in Palm Springs

It’s a game of hide and seek that in real life could save lives. Explosives were hidden in buses, an airplane, in trucks, in mail, and in luggage at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Canine detection teams from around Southern California were here in the desert Tuesday to sniff it out.

It was part of a training session hosted by Palm Springs Police and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.

There was an elaborate setup. Four trucks, borrowed from FedEx, were lined up in a parking lot. One truck carried 1,000 pounds of real explosives.

Canines went through the course one by one with their handlers and sniffed out the explosives.

Gus Lozano, with Los Angeles County Metro, and his canine-partner Napoleon, took us with them on the Fedex course.

“(We) constantly train with the real stuff,” Lozano said. “When (Napoleon’s) out there working, he’s looking for it.“

Napoleon circled and sniffed heavily around truck one but it wasn’t until he got to truck number two that he gives his handler “the signal“. It’s an alert something isn’t right.

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