Foxhound™
Foxhound Portable Narcotics Analyzer | Fast, simple narcotics testing for corrections facilities.
The Foxhound IMS™ Portable Narcotics Analyzer quickly identifies illicit drugs, with minimal officer contact, using enhanced ion mobility spectrometry (IMS). It can detect low-concentration drugs, from unseen trace amounts to visible particles, to enable versatile operations and protect correction officers and mailroom staff.
Purpose-built for Correction Facilities
Foxhound is purpose-built to give correction officers and mailroom staff fast, defensible answers about the presence of targeted narcotic substances.
The Foxhound IMS™ Portable Narcotics Analyzer quickly identifies illicit drugs, with minimal officer contact, using enhanced ion mobility spectrometry (IMS). It can detect low-concentration drugs, from unseen trace amounts to visible particles, to enable versatile operations and protect correction officers and mailroom staff.
Purpose-built for Correction Facilities
Foxhound is purpose-built to give correction officers and mailroom staff fast, defensible answers about the presence of targeted narcotic substances.
Key features
Multi-sampling mode for non-visible trace and visible particle samples.
Analyze samples in seconds. Rapid clear down from high sample loads.
Compact and rugged so it can be carried from place to place, unlike traditional desktop devices.
Intuitive UI requires minimal training. Five inch, high resolution, anti-glare color touchscreen LCD.
Minimal contact sampling and no radioactive source or materials.
Our proprietary maintenance regenerative dryer reduces the cost of ownership.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Its multi-sampling mode covers both non-visible trace residue (e.g., on an envelope, a piece of mail, or a surface someone touched) and visible particles. This matters especially for mailrooms, where drugs are increasingly smuggled in as trace residue soaked into paper, stamps, or child’s drawings rather than as obvious powder.
Foxhound requires minimal contact with the sample, which reduces officer and mailroom staff exposure to unknown substances — including novel synthetic opioids where even small amounts can be dangerous. It also contains no radioactive source or materials, unlike some older detection technologies.
Samples are analyzed in seconds, with rapid clear-down between tests — a real advantage in a mailroom processing high volumes of incoming mail daily, or in a facility doing routine intake screening.
Yes. It is compact and rugged for carrying between locations, unlike traditional desktop lab equipment that stays fixed in one room. That means the same unit can support mailroom screening, intake, cell searches, or visitation checks.
Foxhound uses a proprietary regenerative dryer in its maintenance process, which is designed to reduce consumable costs over time compared to devices that need frequent consumable replacement.