The power of Hans, the German Shepherd police canine, working at me from behind and biting my arm, knocked me straight off my toes.
He wasn’t even attacking at full pelt, and I knew he was coming for me.
Imagine in the event you had been caught unaware by an attacking canine?
“What we’d suggest is cross your arms and turn your back to them, don’t run away- if you run away then you’re [encouraging] the dog to… chase you, and you’re turning it into a game,” explains head of the West Midlands Police Dog Unit, Inspector Leanne Chapman.
Even with the swimsuit safety, absolutely padded, and coated by protecting material, it seems like my elbow is bruising as Hans sinks his enamel in. My coronary heart is pounding, I’m breathless. My first response could be to run.
“If the dog is biting you, try to keep as still as possible and don’t try to fight with the dog,” Insp Chapman explains.
“If someone comes and tries to hold their collar to try and stop that ragging reflex in the dog, just try to prevent as much injury as you can.”
West Midlands Police, like different power areas throughout the UK, are coping with a steep rise in canine assaults – together with ones by varieties of XL bullies.
The authorities says it’s near banning the breed, as a result of they’ve been concerned in half of the UK’s deadly canine assaults lately.
They invited Sky News to their canine coaching grounds at Balsall Common close to Coventry to inform us how, within the final six months, their power alone has been referred to as out to 800 harmful dog-related incidents.
They present us footage of among the canines they’ve seized; “Charles”, a white American Cross, “Titan” a brown Pocket Bully, “Hector” a Great Dane Mastiff Cross.
Many of the canines they seize have brought on severe damage to individuals.
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An XL Bully is proven prowling round a backyard in squalor. Due to his measurement and potential hazard to officers, they needed to hearth a tranquilliser shot to sedate him.
PC Mark Collier, a canine handler with 9 years expertise, tells me they’ve had a “massive increase” in assaults.
“To the point where some days you come to work and that’s all you do for the whole day, a solid duty of dangerous dog incidents”, he says.
“For some of the dogs that we’re seizing, and the power of them, you can have two or three handlers struggling to handle some of these dogs.”
Source: information.sky.com”