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Armed to the teeth: the problem with pit bulls
Pit bulls are increasingly replacing knives as the weapon of choice
among gang members, with equally deadly results. Gordon Rayner joins the
police dog units as they raid suspected owners, and asks where the law
that was meant to protect us went wrong.
By Gordon Rayner
Published: 7:00AM BST 15 Apr 2010
Comments 66 | Comment on this article
Link to this video
It is the morning school run in Bethnal Green, east London, when five
police vehicles pull up in convoy outside a low-rise council block.
Twelve police officers jump out and stride silently along a narrow
walkway to the door of a second-floor maisonette. An elderly woman, who
could be forgiven for thinking she is witnessing an anti-terror raid as
she sees helmets and riot shields go by, leans out from next door, and
is promptly told to get back inside.
At a signal from his commander, a constable attacks the door with a
metal battering ram and as the lock gives way his colleagues move in.
There are shouts from inside the flat, and a blue shoulder-bag is thrown
from a back window in an attempt to hide the cannabis and cocaine it
contains. After arresting and handcuffing a 27-year-old man who lives
here with his mother and teenage sister, the officers find what they are
after: pit bull terriers....
(snip)
...
The RSPCA also advocates compulsory microchipping of all dogs, and a
Government consultation currently being carried out into ways of
improving the Dangerous Dogs Act has looked at the possibility of a
register of dogs, run along similar lines to car registration, which
would require owners to notify the authorities of changes of address and
changes of ownership, as well as compulsory third party insurance. But
the Government has already ruled out compulsory insurance, accepting
that it would be ignored by the owners who present the biggest problem,
while police believe they would have the same problem with a national
register.
The RSPCA says it has had 'positive' feedback from all the major
political parties to the idea of a new law combining the US-style system
and current breed-specific legislation, and hopes it will be picked up
quickly by whichever is in power after the election. For the 14 people
who are hospitalised by dog attacks every day, those changes can't come
soon enough.
http://tinyurl.com/y6dnek2
Armed to the teeth: the problem with pit bulls
Pit bulls are increasingly replacing knives as the weapon of choice
among gang members, with equally deadly results. Gordon Rayner joins the
police dog units as they raid suspected owners, and asks where the law
that was meant to protect us went wrong.
By Gordon Rayner
Published: 7:00AM BST 15 Apr 2010
Comments 66 | Comment on this article
Link to this video
It is the morning school run in Bethnal Green, east London, when five
police vehicles pull up in convoy outside a low-rise council block.
Twelve police officers jump out and stride silently along a narrow
walkway to the door of a second-floor maisonette. An elderly woman, who
could be forgiven for thinking she is witnessing an anti-terror raid as
she sees helmets and riot shields go by, leans out from next door, and
is promptly told to get back inside.
At a signal from his commander, a constable attacks the door with a
metal battering ram and as the lock gives way his colleagues move in.
There are shouts from inside the flat, and a blue shoulder-bag is thrown
from a back window in an attempt to hide the cannabis and cocaine it
contains. After arresting and handcuffing a 27-year-old man who lives
here with his mother and teenage sister, the officers find what they are
after: pit bull terriers....
(snip)
...
The RSPCA also advocates compulsory microchipping of all dogs, and a
Government consultation currently being carried out into ways of
improving the Dangerous Dogs Act has looked at the possibility of a
register of dogs, run along similar lines to car registration, which
would require owners to notify the authorities of changes of address and
changes of ownership, as well as compulsory third party insurance. But
the Government has already ruled out compulsory insurance, accepting
that it would be ignored by the owners who present the biggest problem,
while police believe they would have the same problem with a national
register.
The RSPCA says it has had 'positive' feedback from all the major
political parties to the idea of a new law combining the US-style system
and current breed-specific legislation, and hopes it will be picked up
quickly by whichever is in power after the election. For the 14 people
who are hospitalised by dog attacks every day, those changes can't come
soon enough.
