Police Dog Attacks Innocent Person

It is going to be difficult knowing who to believe - the cop or the teacher?

I would never put myself in a situation either - and I would also let the cop take care of it in case there WAS an intruder.

Wow. Coming from the back ground I come from I would want to believe the Officers but at the same time There are some rotten ones out there. I can tell you that the action the k-9 took it not one that is taught in the US or Canada anymore. Police k-9's are trained to hold and bark. That means they find their suspect and stand there all mean looking and barking at the suspect unless the suspect moves. once the suspect moves then the dog is trained to attack. I have spent more then 18 years of my 26 on this earth helping train/teach about the hold and bark method. Either we aren't getting the whole story or This was one poorly trained k-9.

Hmmmmm...
Hard to say since I wasn't there. But I'm really surprised that she went into the building when she saw police there, without going to speak with them first, instead of 'yelling around the corner'. What if there had been a standoff or something going on in there? That was a pretty foolish action on her part.

Plus, from the police dog demos I've seen, the dogs don't 'hold' or bite unless the suspect moves or tries to run or attack. It seems odd to me that the dog would bite her unprovoked, unless the dogs are trained differently there.

99% of the police Departments in the US Train their Dogs with the HOLD and BARK. like I put in my last post i have spent 18 years of my life helping train/teach about the hold and bark. This includes Seminars for most Major police Departments in the U.S. and a few in Canada.

My bad I must have miss read that part. But like I said 99% of police departments train with the BARK and HOLD method. aparently this Department is part of the 1% that doesn't. This method was embraced back in the late 80's by some departments. But as time went on and departments were getting sued over issues like this one. The departments wised up and realized that the Bark and hold method is a more safer approach not only for the suspect but for the animal it's self. Growing up My father was Trained in Dog behavior, and proper training techniques. URL=http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/enforcement/canines/canine_program/]The Instructor who taught my dad now runs this Trainging facility.[/url]

Here's a Site about the Denver Police K-9 Unit. Since my access to the net in limited I can't tell you what exactly is on it but Considering in the discription it mentions one of my Father officer's Technichian D. Church from when my father was the Sgt of the unit I am sure that he is lister there somewhere since my Father turned that Unit around. He worked for them between the years of 1988-1991 I believe. Anyway Here's the link.
DPD K-9 Unit

The sad thing is that I have been sitting here for an hour trying to find links to some information from the School in Germany that started all this type of training to be done here in the U.S. But I can't remember how to spell much less say the school's name. I just know that after my father spent 6 months in Berlin and another 6 months in Alabama. I started learning all that I know now. And that is when my father started doing his seminairs all over the nation and is even mentioned in a few resource books. I spent my summers and my weekends and my days home sick from school training and learning all about these concepts and even applied them to my little dog I had at the time. She was the only Attack trained West highland white terrier in the world I bet! lol She was trained in the hold and bark, and was also trained to detect bombs.(I know strange to think that just a little kid had access to TNT, C-4, Dynamite, and other materials to do this kinda of thing just for fun) But it was something that was always on hand to keep the training fresh for the Police dogs. ANYWAY!!!!!!!!! Now that I left a horriablely long message!!!! it's time for me to go.