Southern California K9s cracking down on child predators

In an effort to protect children, actively monitoring registered sex offenders is what a certain group of dogs are specially trained for.

These aren’t just regular dogs — these K9s — named Chewie and Solo — are professionally trained to catch predators as part of their full-time job with the Riverside County Child Exploitation Team.

Chewy and Solo are electronic scent detection dogs that can sniff out anyone a variety of devices and tech that may hold potential evidence that police might need. They work as part of a task force created by the Riverside County District Attorney's Office.

KTLA's Shelby Nelson reports on October 31, 2023.

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[t]

For a moment I thought they had the scent of all registered offenders in the area😂

[igglybiggly]

Dogs are intuitive and can sense good from bad✔💯

[spookiidookii]

impressive!! thank you Riverside PD!!!!

[nintenmetro]

The Force is strong with these good boys.

[thisisme]

Glad to see "Chewy" and "Solo, " working on the job!

[beerussama]

Don’t get me wrong this is great. But, now that you’ve shown it, predators are going to try to find better ways of hiding those things.

[LearnToWin]

According my sources and research…Law enforcement agencies need to start investigating child predators in wealthy neighborhoods and communities of SoCal. I believe that it where you will find most of the child predators 💯

[tammiebroggins]

Every child needs a big protective dog in their lives. I wish i would of had one.

[MrJuvefrank]

I was hoping my doggy could be a doctor, a lawyer, or a professor, but all she's good for is loving.

[OJ-xwoc]

From the tiltle alone, I thought they could smell sex offenders

[nicolasrobacinni]

Have you tried to bring those doggies to a schools on a drag queen showtimes??😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[alksjda]

So they are going after all republicans 💀

[kimleverette]

Better watch out child predators...they are coming at you and for you 😊

[knuclearx]

If this doesn't work, at least now they're trained to find your phone if you left it anywhere for some reason

[Blackowl]

So they’re cracking down on Jared 👱🏻‍♂️👱🏻‍♂️

[MrJuvefrank]

Chuy and Solo have the correct names for Halloween and Star Wars. They need doggies by the names of Luke SkyWalker, Emperor, and Darth Vader.

[spilbee]

They have the same “fail” rate as regular drug dogs? They’re hits are wrong about half the time…

[pleasantdreams]

I'm confused, so they smell anyone with a phone?

[girthgames]

Do they have the k9s learn with Joe Bidens scent?

[mikewazowski]

This is an American thing I don’t know why other countries don’t have this problem, it’s weird.