Drug squirrel, a new type of drug animal, is a demon squirrel. Small and agile, it is suitable for searching complex scenes such as logistics warehouses and express stations, or searching for drugs from a height. In February 2023, the Police Dog Brigade of the Criminal Police Detachment of Hechuan District Public Security Bureau successfully trained the first batch of six domestic anti-drug squirrels.
Washington post, USA, February 9 article, original title: An anti-drug squirrel unit is being trained to join the China police force. The newest reserve members of the anti-drug police force are small, flexible, alert and agile. Once the training is completed, they will be deployed to large places with complex environments such as logistics warehouses to look for drugs that may be hidden there. These are not elite narcotics police, but squirrels. This week, a police department in southwest China said that it had successfully trained six anti-drug squirrels as part of a national project to try non-canine animals in anti-drug operations. Yin Jin, a police dog trainer assigned to train the anti-drug squirrel unit, told China media on Monday that the squirrels have performed well in drug search training so far. The news about the existence of this squirrel squad spread rapidly in China. Yin said that training these squirrels is the result of years of research. "Squirrels have a keen sense of smell!" He said that these rodents were trained to tell if they had found drugs by scratching. He said that rodents such as squirrels are good at finding drugs because they can sniff out drugs hidden in sealed packages through corners and gaps in narrow spaces. However, this is the first batch of squirrels in China, because it took several years for the police to be sure that they had correctly trained rodents for this operation. The police plan to receive more real-world training before letting these squirrels perform actual tasks.