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Samantha Lock and Peter Bodkin

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Bad smell for drug detection dogs at music festivals | History Defined

NSW Police says drug-detection dogs are very effective in the "majority" of canine searches. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

The overwhelming failure of police drug-detection dogs to correctly sniff out illicit substances on people destroys any justification for the canines' presence at music festivals, critics say.

NSW Police search figures show the dogs scored an average success rate of just 25 per cent during the last decade.

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