A retired Royal Gibraltar Police dog Buddy, found £300 of cannabis last night in a locally registered car in the Europort area.

A statement from the RGP follows below:

A retired Royal Gibraltar Police dog proved that he hasn’t lost any of his old skills – after finding £300 of cannabis last night. 

Buddy, 12, a Golden Labrador, was out for his evening walkies with his owner when  he made the find around 7pm. 

The ex-Drugs Detection dog was walking past a locally registered car in the Europort  area when he got a sniff of something suspicious. 

Buddy, who retired from the RGP in 2015, then alerted his master, an off-duty police  officer – who quickly called the Police Control Room. 

Uniformed officers then arrived and searched the car with its owner present. 

A rucksack was found within the vehicle, which contained suspected cannabis resin  weighing approximately 64 grams. 

A 57-year-old local man was then arrested on suspicion of Possession of a  Controlled Class B Drug and taken to New Mole House Police Station.