Taste For Human Flesh Complicates German Police's New Detective Program

“The vultures are thought to be better than sniffer dogs at finding bodies when a large area has to be searched and the terrain is difficult, for example if it is densely overgrown. But the experiment raises ethical concerns because of the risk that a vulture could start pecking at a dead body, the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper says.”
 — German police are using three trained vultures to find dead bodies. The birds have been named Sherlock, Miss Marple and Colombo. Just as you would expect.