The Philippine National Police (PNP) procured more than P764 million worth of equipment as part of the modernization program to improve its operational capabilities across the country. PNP officer-in-charge (OIC) Police Lt. Gen. Vicente Danao, Jr. assured the public of the clean transaction in the
a trail, a trail of vapors in the air that smelled like a bomb. vapors that only a specially trained dog could detect. stay. stay. stay. reporter: a dog like these now being trained at auburn university. researchers here call them vapor wake dogs. the point of a vapor wake dog is to detect the vapor of the bomb, if you will, before it s actually placed somewhere where it might explode, catch it before that. that is exactly correct. your standard bomb dog, your explosive detector dog is primed on looking at an object, a backpack that s placed somewhere. a vapor wake dog s ability is to detect the odor coming off of that backpack on the back of someone as they carry it. reporter: amazing. and to follow that plume of vapor. reporter: auburn university professor jim floyd says vapor wake dogs are the ultimate
boston marathon, bomb-sniffing dogs swept the area twice according to the boston globe. the type of bombs used in boston, though, could have been hard to detect but at alabama s auburn university, researchers are training what are being called the ultimate bomb-sniffing dogs. randi kaye went there to report. reporter: imagine if the boston bombing suspects had left a trail, a trail of vapors in the air that smelled like a bomb. vapors that only a specially trained dog could detect. stay. stay. stay. reporter: a dog like these, now being trained at auburn university. researchers here call them vapor wake dogs. the point of a vapor wake dog is to detect the vapor of the bomb before it s placed somewhere before it might explode, catch it before that? exactly correct. your standard bomb dog, your explosive detector dog, is primed on looking at an object, a backpack, that s placed
the point of a vapor wake dog is to detect the vapor of the bomb before it s placed somewhere before it might explode, catch it before that? exactly correct. your standard bomb dog, your explosive detector dog, is primed on looking at an object, a backpack, that s placed somewhere. a vapor wake dog s ability is to detect the odor coming off of that backpack on the back of someone as they carry it. reporter: amazing. and to follow that plume of vapor. reporter: auburn university professor jim floyd says vapor wake dogs are the ultimate bomb-sniffing dog. they can follow a plume or bomb vapor stretching several football fields. a skill so unique, the university hopes to patent it. this video from the university shows a vapor wake dog in action. once he catches the odor in the air, he never lets up. we did our own experiment at this alabama mall with the help