Police Dogs

  • Reference Number: 2729
  • Date released: 18 October 2010

Request

  1. the number of complaints received by your force about the behaviour / action of your police dogs or - if your force has them - horses since 1st January 2007. Please include all recorded incidents where members of the public, or other police workers, have complained that they have been injured by the animals, or their property been damaged by them.
  2. where possible, please provide a brief description of each incident, giving the circumstances in which it occurred and details of the alleged action, as well as any subsequent action taken by your force.

Response

In accordance with section 1 (1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

This is the information that is available at present.

Please see the following web pages as the information is already available and is therefore exempt in accordance with section 21 (1) of the Act:

Previous Request 2484

Previous Request 2304

We instigated a new reporting system from November 2008, prior to that date the information was never collated centrally and no complete records exist. We are currently updating this list and we will let you have an update as soon as it becomes available, ie April 2010 to present date.

Updated List FOI 2729

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