Dog back on duty after biting woman on parade

A Police dog that startled participants in Taupo's Anzac Day Dawn Parade when it lunged at a woman and bit her arm is back on duty after being recertified to return to duty.

The dog, Roc, and its handler were part of a contingent of 23 Taupo police officers who took part in the parade.

Witnesses say the black german shepherd's handler was struggling to control the dog prior to it attacking the woman.

"It was leaping around all over the place and it just latched to this woman below the elbow," says John Hill, who was in the parade with a group of Scouts.

The woman was nearly thrown to the ground as the handler tried to get the dog to release its grip, he says.

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"The only way he could get control of the dog was to have hold of the choker chain right at the dog's neck and have the front feet lifted off the ground."

And THAT's CONTROL !! that's ABUSE !

Mr Hill says if a member of the public's dog had bitten anybody in such a public place it would have to be destroyed. "It needs more bloody training."

Read my blog and this is the third one this year !! Not good enough. Once a dog smells blood, very very difficult to get that out of his brain.

Senior Sergeant Tony Jeurissen says as far as he knows this is the first time the dog has bitten a member of the public.

And it won't be the last !

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He says it's "not unusual" for this type of incident to occur. WHAT !!

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She has not laid a complaint with the police. Why not? Was she bullied into NOT complaining? Just like the cops did with the rape case?