U.K.: "Force muzzles dogs to protect suspects from bite injuries"
"Police dogs are being muzzled to prevent them from biting criminals. Instead of clamping their jaws around the legs of suspects, the dogs are trained to leap at their targets and disable them with a flying butt. ... The policy follows a rise in compensation claims against forces from members of the public, and even serving officers, who have been bitten by police dogs. One force, in Greater Manchester, has paid out £59,000 in five years to 36 bite victims." (Ben Leapman, Daily Telegraph, Oct. 15).
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