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Schools in the Lakes area of Michigan are employing K-9 units to help fight teen substance abuse. The K-9 units, from the Oakland County (Michigan) sheriff's department, assist in random drugs sweeps; however, these sweeps are expensive and may soon be reduced due to budget cuts. Currently, schools don't always request sweeps every year, but an incident can spur a request any time.

Sgt. Joseph Lambourn, acting coordinator of the K-9 units, describes the process of conducting a K-9 drug sweep at a school: "I'll bring in all the dogs for a full-scale search. ... Depending on the school's request, we search cars, lockers, and/or backpacks. There are two K-9 officers ... one works midnights and the other works the day shift but he is a circle car patrol officer and assigned to travel throughout the county."

(Source: www.spinalcolumnonline.com)

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