Just one month since being sworn into their new role at Louisville Metro Corrections, the K-9 dogs Max and Mia have led to six drug busts.Among the drugs found are heroin, cocaine and fentanyl."You don't know what you're getting in there," Lt. George Manley said. "A lot of the inmates get what they can get their hands on sometimes and some of the stuff is pretty dangerous."The drugs have resulted in inmate overdoses, deaths, and officers being hospitalized due to exposure. With the addition of Max and Mia to the department, city officials say they're already seeing a change at the jail."Can you imagine if we look back 6 months ago at what was going on at the jail?" said Amy Holton-Stewart of Louisville Metro Council. "What is happening now is that these dogs are saving lives."The councilwoman led the charge in securing funding for the K-9 unit."It's very exciting to see a project come to fruition and to see these dogs in action, and to know that they've already made a difference by finding some drugs in the jail," she said.The dogs, who had no prior drug-sniffing skills, were trained with help from LMPD."LMPD's CID unit said it would step up and help us with the training so we wouldn't have to pay an outside vendor and send our handlers out of state for multiple weeks," Manley said. "We were able to do it here and in the environment that they're going to be working in, so it was a win-win for us."The K-9s will search the entire facility seven days a week at random hours with a focus on the inmate booking floor and the area where outside vendors make deliveries to the jail."That's where most of the drugs come in. Somehow, they make it through the search process and it's very difficult to catch those things sometimes," Manley said.Manley says the dogs will also search the inmates to further crack down on contraband at the facility."Our dogs are not aggressive, but they're dedicated to the work, so it might scare people a little bit when they see the motivation to find the drugs, but inmates are starting to understand they're not dangerous to them," he said.The K-9 team is just one part of the plan to stop narcotics at Metro Corrections, but Lt. Manley says the two play a significant role."There's a lot of things in action to help cut this down," he said. "I can't give all the credit to the K-9 guys, but they will be in there finding stuff and part of the efforts happening now."Upgraded body scanners and plans to switch to all digital mail are additional ways the department is working to intercept illegal drugs.