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Tokyo Customs has punished three of its officers for secretly slipping drugs into travellers' luggage more than 160 times at Japan's main international airport to train drug-sniffing dogs.
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"We are deeply sorry that such acts have happened," Takahashi said. "The three officers apologised and explained that they did it in an effort to boost the dogs' performance."
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One of the officers slipped a package of cannabis resin into an outside pocket of luggage belonging to a traveller from Hong Kong, but a sniffer dog failed to detect it, Takahashi said.
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Tokyo Customs then frantically sought help from airline and airport officials to track down the Hong Kong traveller at his Tokyo hotel and recover the more than four ounces (120 grams) of resin a day later.