Claims that pupils in Buckinghamshire have been in favour of their schools using sniffer dogs to detect drugs should be treated with suspicion, a leading drugs charity has said.
DrugScope made its warning after a report into the use of dogs in six schools in the county said the initiative was a "proven success". However, no pupils were caught with drugs, and while 82 per cent of pupils who responded to a survey felt the use of dogs was an excellent idea, only eight per cent of the children in one school, and 20 per cent overall, returned their questionnaires.
Dogs were brought into the schools during the 2003/04 academic year.
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