Careless cops lose police dog
A £4 MILLION helicopter and ‘extensive police resources’ were used after bungling cops lost a valuable police dog.
The police helicopter, which costs between £500-£1,000 an hour to keep airborne, was used for around four hours, according to eye witnesses, to locate the dog in Denbigh, along with ‘four police cars, an unmarked police car and officers on foot patrol.’
- Careless cops lose police dog
Talk about history repeating itself, c/o wikki;
One of the first real attempts to use dogs to aid police in the detection of crime and the apprehension of a criminal was in 1888 when two bloodhounds were used in a simple tracking test set by the then Commissioner of the Metropolitan (London) Police, Sir Charles Warren with a view to using them in the hunt for the Victorian murderer, Jack the Ripper. The results were far from satisfactory, with one of the hounds biting the Commissioner and both dogs later running off requiring a police search to find them.
...and back to the earlier question,
"OK, all you armchair quarterbacks, how would you save 13 million off the police aviation budget?"
Apparently there are 2500 police dogs in the country, at £4k a time, lets push out some A5 flyers reminding handlers to close cage doors.
That's £10 million taken care of!
