North Wales Police deliberately mow down dog

One officer tried to reach out to the dog but was bitten and the animal escaped.

It was putting motorists lives at risks and it bit an officer what should they have done?
 
scorchisio said:
One officer tried to reach out to the dog but was bitten and the animal escaped.

It was putting motorists lives at risks and it bit an officer what should they have done?
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That was the cops own wrong-doing, should have called for the council dog warden or an officer trained to deal with animals. Running down an animal intentionally is not the way imo.

The cop should have known better than approach the animal.
 
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It's against the Law in the UK to cause unnecessary cruelty suffering to any animal, but it's the Police so they are above the laws they are supposed to uphold. There are far more humane ways of dealing with animals.
 
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Without seeing the situation first hand it's hard to comment whether it was reasonable or not.

I don't agree with the bit in the article about hitting the dog at a sufficient enough speed it wouldn't feel anything, dogs have been hit at 100mph and survived the initial blow.
 
thebennyboy said:
Totally disagree, running down an animal intentionally is never reasonable. I may be slightly biased as i love animals, even then i would still see it as unreasonable.
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What if in the meanwhile, someone swerved to avoid it running in the road and crashed and killed themselves.

Entirely reasonable to kill the animal if they weren't able to safely remove it from the road.
 
thebennyboy said:
That was the cops own wrong-doing, should have called for the council dog warden or an officer trained to deal with animals. Running down an animal intentionally is not the way imo.

The cop should have known better than approach the animal.
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Be reasonable, all alternatives would have been considered. If they had let it be it'd keep causing a hazard to road users (potentially ending in the same outcome for the animal anyway), and shutting down a road and trying to contain a dog until a "council dog warden" (at 3am? Not likely) or other suitably-trained and equipped person can attend simply isn't practical.

It's not something the officers would have wanted to do, by any means, but they'd also be the first ones held responsible if it ran into traffic and caused an incident.
 
A spokesman for the force added: “Other methods of destruction were considered, but were ruled out on the grounds of public safety.”

Non story.
 
Jokester said:
What if in the meanwhile, someone swerved to avoid it running in the road and crashed and killed themselves.

Entirely reasonable to kill the animal if they weren't able to safely remove it from the road.
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Should have been the final option, there nothing saying they did or didn't try anything else (besides a cop approaching it). This force covers a lot of rural roads where animals are common place, no doubt they'd have officers trained to deal with animals (cows, sheep, dogs etc.).
 
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Jokester said:
What if in the meanwhile, someone swerved to avoid it running in the road and crashed and killed themselves.

Entirely reasonable to kill the animal if they weren't able to safely remove it from the road.
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Things are never one thing or the other. What prevented the officers warning other motorists of the potential hazard? It wasn't rush hour traffic it was late at night so I don't see why other methods could have been attempted rather than brutally kill a dog.
 
Necessary maybe I don't think its really "reasonable" as such but sometimes there really is no other option as much as it sucks.

.Lethal said:
Things are never one thing or the other. What prevented the officers warning other motorists of the potential hazard? It wasn't rush hour traffic it was late at night so I don't see why other methods could have been attempted rather than brutally kill a dog.
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When the dog is running all over the place while you are trying to warn other motorists in limited visibility? yeah that doesn't have the potential to go very badly wrong... and then its the cops who are gonna get the blame, no win situation really.
 
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I'd imagine the dog was rather scared. They're animals after all I'd expect to get bitten by a scared dog.

im not convinced it was the only possible conclusion but I wasn't there.
 
thebennyboy said:
Should have been the final option, there nothing saying they did or they didn't try anything else (besides a cop approaching it).
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So you don't actually know if they had tried and/or assessed the other options relative to the level of present danger and concluded that as unfortunate as it was, this was the final option they had left. I'm sure they didn't revel in doing it :(
 
They couldn't catch it or get it under control and it was running in and out of traffic. Its unfortunate but ones dogs death compared to a pileup of motorists and potential injuries to other road users.

Right decision IMO.
 
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