RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Bomb-sniffing dogs are adding an extra level of security for N.C. State football games this fall.
The new "person borne" explosive detection dogs are different from traditional bomb-sniffing dogs because they can scan up to 150 people per minute. They can do this in a crowd and while everyone's moving.
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Once the dogs detect an explosive or a weapon, they can pinpoint who has it on them.
The N.C. State campus police force is the first police department in the entire state to get this type of bomb-sniffing K-9.
"It's a possibility that anywhere large crowds are gathered, there's a potential for a terrorist attack or the use of explosives," said N.C. State Police Chief Jack Moorman. "We have close to 60,000 people who will be in that stadium any given day. Certainly a large scale athletic event and we want to make sure we are doing everything we can do to keep our fans, spectators, and team and our students safe."
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The dogs go through six weeks of intense training, and they came from a training facility out of Southern Pines.
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