Police dog nearly run down at burglary scene

A police dog narrowly missed being run over when a driver rammed a police car while trying to escape from the scene of burglary near Hamilton early today.

Police were returning from an armed incident in Enderley when they were called to reports of a break-in about 1.30am and found a suspicious car parked by the Rukuhia School, about 8km south of Hamilton.

Letting his dog out of the patrol car, a police dog handler went to investigate the car when it suddenly reversed at them, narrowly missing the dog and hitting the police vehicle.

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Don't worry, the dog is fine, and they caught the young idiots!