BANKS COUNTY, Ga. — Anything is paw-sible when it comes to the nose of one Banks County Sheriff's Office K-9 officer.
K-9 Becka and her handler are nationally ranked for their finds, making Becka one of the best cop dogs in the entire country.
The sheriff's office reported K-9 Becka and Cpl. Josh Pressley completed 20 tracks in 18 months to recover both missing people and criminals, including a recent find of four suspects in 15 minutes.
"We have a 94% success rate, which means we've only had one unsuccessful track," Pressley said.
The sheriff's office said Becka and Pressley rank third in the country for scent evidence K-9 partner finds, in part, thanks to her talented nose.
"(Bloodhounds) have approximately almost 30 million olfactory receptors," Pressley explained. "That's like when you walk into grandma's house on Thanksgiving, and you smell apple pie. You know that smell. The dog can distinguish the individual ingredients in the apple pie. So they can smell the cinnamon, the flour, the apples, everything in the pie."
With that nose, Pressley said he hopes it gives people in the county and state the reassurance that if a family member goes missing, Becka will be on the trail, adding her track record has made a "difference between life and death."
"Her sole purpose is locating missing loved ones," Pressley said. "So Alzheimer's patients who wander away, juveniles that run away from home. Anybody in an altered mental state that needs to be found."
Earlier this year, Becka and Pressley were also credited with finding a driver who was two miles from a car wreck, sleeping face-down in the woods.
The sheriff's office said, in a release, the driver told the duo, "Thank you for saving my life."
It's safe to say -- K-9 Becka is a diamond in the ruff.