The attack happened following a police pursuit of a suspect through the Wandsworth area on Friday, April 12, which was reported by the Wandsworth Times on that date.
The pursuit resulted in the arrest of a 21-year-old man known as "Suspect A" on a number of offences including burglary, possession with intent to supply class A drugs and dangerous driving.
In the wake of the pursuit, the Wandsworth Times received reports that a bystander tending his nearby allotment had been attacked by a dog from a Metropolitan Police Dog Unit dispatched to search the vicinity.This seems to happen all too frequently. Didn't the police handlers once get feted as the cream of the crop?
Hopefully there'll be CCTV to prevent the police from claiming the allotment-holder threatened them with a dibber.
Responding to a request for comment, a Met Police spokesperson confirmed that a police dog from the force had attacked a resident in the area on April 12.
The Met Police spokesperson said: "After arresting Suspect A, the Met’s Police Dog Unit carried out a search of the area as part of enquiries into the investigation.
"During this search, a police dog bit a member of the public on the leg in Steerforth Street, SW18."The local reporters have the scent, and aren't going to give up:
The Met Police statement provided further details of the dog attack, highlighting how the victim was in his 80s and had been taken to hospital by the London Ambulance Service (LAS) with "possibly life-changing" injuries as a result of the dog's attack.The last pensioner that a police dog attacked died. The coroner went to town on them. I guess more of those 'lessons that won't actually be learned', eh?
"Hopefully there'll be CCTV to prevent the police from claiming the allotment-holder threatened them with a dibber." Only readers who have yet to experience such perverted abuse, will be laughing. Dishonourable, perjurious and perfidious are apt descriptions of many plod actions and testimony.
ReplyDeleteLet me be among the first to concede that police dogs have a valuable role to play in crime prevention and detection. The challenging concept for dumb plod, is the highly unethical (the word means 'bad', Jaded) and dangerous nature of training and encouraging dogs, to attack and maim humans.
Are they allowed to bite lawnmower thieves Melvin?
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ReplyDelete"Are they allowed to bite lawnmower(sic) thieves Melvin?"
Please...allow me to be generous, WC Jaded. Savage mongrels may continue to attack their handlers and strip one pound of rump lard from plod who supplement their pay and obligatory compensation claims, with off-duty burglary and/or drug dealing.
Reluctantly, I must turn a blind eye to the ultimate puncturing of those rogues in uniform who charge private fees for losing (loosing) evidence.
Getting embarrassing Melvin.
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I will append one proviso...but I can explain those feelings, WC Jaded. Experiencing embarrassment usually follows public attention focused upon personal failure. When that failure exposes the precise nature of the inability (and not how you would have the public perceive you), the high opinion you have of yourself falls under immediate threat. To be publicly seen in a more revealing light will always affect the opinions of those who may mistakenly hold a better opinion of you.
ReplyDeleteUnless urinary incontinence has reared its ugly head again?
"Let me be among the first to concede that police dogs have a valuable role to play in crime prevention and detection. "
ReplyDeleteNo-one's doubting that. But the handler's control is key, and when it slips, euthanasia should be the immediate result.
The dog can be given to another handler!