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Harley's a pretty good girl she loves to eat she loves to lounge around and most of all she loves helping stop crimes the Labrador Retriever is one of many specially trained electronic storage detection canines pooches who go through a rigorous program to be able to sniff out devices like hard drives thumb drives and computers in a demonstration at the Connecticut State Police's training facility Harley was able to find all the devices in this room in less than 10 minutes just from smell alone the k-9 training school in Connecticut developed the program creating the first ESD dog back in 2012 the police department's chemists figured out that all electronic devices have a chemical called now try to say this 3 times fast tri-phenyl phosphine oxide we'll call it t PPO just to keep it short it's a chemical that coats any of these memory devices and we're fortunate that these devices can't be made without it so every device that can hold memory is associated with it and that's what we ask these guys to to search for these texts seeking dogs are used to help bus child predators who stash child pornography and hidden hard drives as well as crucial evidence like buried phones Hartley's partner is Detective Brett hot Rijn from Westchester County and they both work out of the FBI office in New York these devices the memory that's within them is growing the devices are getting smaller they're easily hidden I feel that if not all crimes have some Nexus to electronic devices I mean we're all carrying cell phones we're now wearing smartwatches there are many things that she could be useful for in in working on these investigations she's a very good girl she I couldn't ask for a better partner like I said she impresses me every day and she gets lots of love in my house that's for sure