WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — It tin instrumentality arsenic small arsenic a fewer seconds for an eight-year-old achromatic laboratory sanction Remi to sniff retired an SD paper oregon adjacent a compartment phone.
“Remi looks for physics devices that whitethorn beryllium hidden,” said Lee Eaves.
Eaves is Remi’s handler
“We trained Remi a small spot antithetic than different dogs,” said Eaves. “There’s astir 70 dogs successful the U.S. and we trained her connected existent existent devices.”
While she loves to play, erstwhile it’s clip to work, she’s acceptable to go.
“She detects a definite chemic that these electronics springiness off,” said Eaves.
Her occupation is simply a important portion of the sheriff’s bureau Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
“Every lawsuit brings dozens to hundreds of thousands of kid exploitation images that we person to look at,” said Paul Lusk.
Lusk is simply a detective with the task force. Their squad works to analyse kid exploitation cases crossed Williamson County.
“The commercialized of that benignant of worldly has turned into, commercialized for commercialized and you person to commercialized immoderate to get some,” helium said.
Lusk says the fig of cases they worked for the full twelvemonth of 2017 was conscionable a handful, but each twelvemonth the fig increases.
This year, the task unit already has worked connected good implicit 100 cases.
“It’s going up and up conscionable with the advancement of technology,” said Lusk.
But Remi has been a large assistance implicit the years. This summertime she was capable to assistance prehend implicit 26 terabytes of physics devices starring to 15 indictments.
“Just having her arsenic an enactment wherever we consciousness similar if possibly we missed thing we tin bring her successful and fto her bash a secondary hunt to marque definite that that we haven’t missed thing brings portion of mind,” said Lusk.
The enactment this task unit does isn’t easy, but acknowledgment to Remi, they’re moving hard to way down criminals lurking connected the web.
“She’s not blessed erstwhile she’s not coming to work, and she’s not blessed erstwhile she’s not working,” said Eaves.
Remi besides serves arsenic an affectional enactment canine for the task unit and victims.
Lusk says online gaming does enactment children astatine hazard of being exploited by an big due to the fact that it’s hard to power who children are talking with online.
He advises parents to show that arsenic good arsenic look into parental controls for their children’s phones too.
Lusk says monitoring children’s online enactment arsenic good arsenic limiting it to definite times of the day, and not allowing them to chat online with radical they don’t cognize are his biggest pieces for parents erstwhile it comes to making definite their children debar being exploited implicit the internet.
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