"Assistant Chief Constable Nick Ingram, said: "Police dogs are a valuable and essential resource which, when used effectively, make a valuable contribution to reducing and detecting crime and disorder and building safer communities.
"Working with dogs does bring with it different challenges.
"The ACPO Police Dog Working Group seeks to ensure that optimum performance is achieved from these valuable resources and that the training, deployment and management of dogs is constantly improved, devised and developed whilst maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and welfare."

In English ????????

WOOF JUSTICE

Not surprised they are rabid Mancunian dogs afterall. How the GMP dogs cost twice the amount of compensation paid to their victims than that which the Metropolitan Police dogs cost for their misdemeanours towards the public and given that the Met police a population of four or five times greater than Greater London suggests to me that GMP dogs are poorly trained and poorly handled.

here we go, the next thing ll be get rid of the dogs.... while were at lets just give up and not bother......

I thought that they were supposed to bite. What a waste of tax payers money.
I think I will volunteer to have a small nip.

Perhaps there is a "moral in the tail"....

MORE DOGS = LESS OVERTIME/SICK PAY CLAIMING/DOUGHNUT SCOFFING COPS


Another for 1st for Manchester.

remove teeth

Occupational hazard.

If GMP fought some of these claims, rather than letting their insurers dictate that they pay out, we may get a reduction in frivolous complaints and save a bob or two of public money..

GMP has reduced the number of Police dogs on general duties to such an extent that they barely register as a resource.

In the 1980's each sub-divisional group had it's own dog handler so the old E division of two sub divisions with four groups on each a total of eight Police Dogs and we had 13 Divisions, now your lucky if there is one dog on covering two or three divisions.

Police dogs bite criminals.......so what, really, more punishment than the courts will dish out.

I'm willing to bet everyone who got bit by a dog deserved it and was the nearest they got to a decent level of justice - far more than a court would ever apply.

GMP appear to be the law-breakers friends: If you don't break into peoples houses, steal their cars, rob or attack them, then you don't get bit. As usual GMP are bending over and taking it dry.

why should the force pay compensation? Make the dog handler pay it, they are responsible for the dog

Yes there will be incidents where people are bitten by accident, but I think the problem is that it is cheaper to pay out to someone suing the police than than the extorionate costs of fighting the claim in court..

used to be that "Dog Bites Man' wasnt a news story.
Having to pay the man has changed all this.

Can't we muzzle the dog and train it to use a Taser ?

Sounds like the dogs are taking over from the handlers lol. No seriously Mr Law Breaker its a dog eat dog world !!!

Perhaps GMP can try and explain why they paid out the most by far of any other Force.

This just takes the biscuit, most people probably deserved it.

Who is in charge in this partnership? The dog or the handler?

I got nipped by one whilst queueing to get into a club in town. I had my back turned and wasn't even aware of their presence until I got bit. Nothing serious, but I think it demonstrated poor handling/control on the part of the officer.

Not sure why they were walking them up and down the queue, looking for drugs I presume. The officer refused to identify himself and said he'd have me put in the cells for the rest of the weekend if I carried on 'making a fuss'.Needless to say, I shut up at that point..

They'll be training the horses to bite next.