attacked by alsation

[mandimoo]

a friend has just called me, rather upset, to tell me an alsation jumped out of a garden and bit her on the *rse. it has broken the skin. the person with the dog said its not his dog, its a police dog and my friend must have drugs on her (which she vehemently denies). then the person with the dog bloke told her to go eff off. i want to know, are police dogs allowed to be without their handlers? is an EX police dog allowed to be free like this? what (if anything) can my friend do about this? she is understandably a bit shaken right now, but i know her and she will be rather miffed and want some sort of justice when she's slept on it. and is 'you must have drugs' any sort of excuse for an ex police dog behaving this way, even if she hasnt got any?

[4getmenot]

tell her to call police they will sort it

[redcrx]

tell her to call the police and report a dangerous dog.

A true police dog would not bite anyone to hurt, especially a trained drug sniffer dog.

What if this dog jumps out and attacks a child, tell your friend to report it immediately.

[Barmaid]

First, she needs medical attention (tetanus jab etc) - but its also important to record that a bite was seen by a doctor. The bite also needs photographing together with any ripped clothing.

I would also recommend she telephone the police and get them to go and have words under the Dangerous Dogs Act. It's rubbish to say she had drugs on her. Unless this dog was "on duty" with its handler, it should not have been allowed to jump into gardens and attack. And then it should only be on command.

She also has a potential civil claim in personal injury. Whether this will be worth pursuing or not is a different matter, but she could try going to a firm on a no win no fee.

[bednobs]

what sort of justice is she after? the only justice in this case would surely be to punish the dog?

[Yorkie580]

Alsations aren't used as drugs dogs in this country - they are used as either general purpose and body recovery dogs.

The person is probably lying in order to scare your friend off.

Even if your friend isn't lying, the dog is out of control and the police will deal with it.

Worst case... it was a drugs dog, and your friend had drugs with the,..... if the drugs aren't found, nothing will happen.

But from what you've said, they are trying to scare your friend into keeping quiet.

[Chronofirefl]

That is absalute rubbish. My friend is a dog handler for dog section and they are not allowed to take them home. Redcrx is right these dogs are trained to sniff and react not bite like a badly trained dangerous dog. Call the police and report it mentioning he lied about it being a police dog. By law the dog can be destroyed if you friend requests

[redcrx]

did your friend report it?

[birdie1971]

Chronofirefl is right. Police sniffer (drugs) dogs are not trained to bite people who have drugs on them. Far from it. If they smell drugs on a person or on anything else, they are trained to back away from the person or object, lie down and look intently at the offending person/object, until such time as their handler tells them otherwise. The guy was lying, pure and simple.

[Velvetee]

I thought retired police dogs stayed with their police handler, not passed onto the general public.

Dogs who bite people without provocation should, in my opinion be destroyed. Next it would probably be a small child. The owner should also be prosecuted.