why don't police dogs ever bite policemen when they are chasing a robber?

Land of the free

The police dog is highly trained,the dog is in training for 12 weeks,and the handler is with that dog for the whole of it`s training.

Edit: Jake bella donna plaster, no fear of you being is bitten they do eat meat but not rotten meat.

Bear

Police dogs are well trained, but they have been known to bite cops.

The funniest video clip I saw was helicopter footage of a female dog handler releasing her dog to apprehend a fleeing subject. The dog caught up with the subject and just ran alongside him. As the female began to catch him she lunged at the male but tripped up over her own dog.

I was in stitches!!!

bluey

I was in Lanc's Police for 15yrs. and once got bitten on my rear end by a Police Dog during a large fight that I was attending, the dog was brought along by his trainer and as he got out of the back of the dog van I was walking past and it bit me, it was very excited at the time and I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I had to go to hospital for a tetanus injection, I was still in full uniform, can you imagine the stick i got from the nurses as i had to show them the bite, also from colleagues, luckily it wasn't a bad bite just a nip, but I didn't hear the last of it for weeks. LOL.

bob m

No dog will ever bite the hand that feeds it.

Joan K

Because they are trained, but it has happened.

LadyMoonlight!!

Because the dogs have been trained. They trust their handlers and have a good relationship with them.

Just as a pet dog wouldn't bite its owner but would bite an intruder into the house! Dogs have a close, loving, trusting attachment to their owner and handler and would never bite them. Most police dog handlers see their dog as their work partner.

Eamz

They are trained!

They are the ones that train them. They know better.

Linda

Well, in some cases they do. I remember one of our officer got bit by the K9, usually, whenever the handler sends out the dogs, he/she would say, I'm saying out the dog etc. in a loud voice, so the other officers stop, and let the dog pass them to pursue the suspect, then the officers follow through. Training differs from the department, the K9s in our department, they couldn't see or tell the difference between whose the bad guy or whose the good guy, so when the handler warn us about the dog, and if we ignore his warning, the dog would probably bite us. Some department, their dogs can tell whose on their team. But yeah, it happens.

trouble_sum81

they usually bite the person running from them not with them.

because there trained to JUST go after the person they want to stop!

kabbamodern101

they are trained not to. duh!

dooleys18

I think it's a case of voice commands and maybe recognising something in common with the police uniforms i.e. the batton, the handcuff. I would say the colour but dogs are supposed to be colourblind right?

The Lion Tamer

As a retired police officer and dog handler, now that the dog is retired living with myself and family I would trust him more than some of the scum that have been arrested, and my dog has received an award for bravery, in a fire at Kennington South East London,he went into a blazing flat,and pulled bodily a baby out from the flat,that is why I trust my dog above anything else

Deepest Fear

b/c that specific policeman trained the dog and they have a relationship where the policeman can tell the dog what to do

The_SoCiAL_ButtERfLyy

Because they are trained not to get the good people...

Ben Gunn

In general, the dogs are much more intelligent than the people they are chasing.

For training and demonstrations they will bite the arm of a handler and are intelligent enough to know when to do so.

I Bent My Wookie

Because they are trained to attack from verbal cues from the officer they work with.

bud

Because each policeman trains there own dog, it won`t bite the hand that feeds it so to speak

KILROY

it's happened where officers including the handler get bit. Generally the officers keep out from between the police dog and the bad guy. Generally the dogs don't chase robbers but are used for searching buildings so the officers let the dog go first after giving a warning.

Flit

Training. And a dog's motto is 'never bite the hand that feeds'.

carswoody

Officers have been known to "get in the way" from time to time. This is quite rare though as the dogs are trained to the best standards of any other working dog in the world.

Ian UK

They sometimes do in the excitement of the chase.

Generally speaking though, they are looking for particular behaviour that will alert them to who needs to be chased!

Dale-Jaime M

because the dogs are cleaver and work with the police officers, the officers are dog handerlers and they trained them

they no who they are after

teddy

because they are trained to bite the perpetrator and not the handler.

Krysten K

Because they're trained.

woodyhou

They are trained and besides they can tell the difference because a fleeing suspect gives off a different "fear" sent which they are trained to find.

waspy

Errrrr same reason your own dog doesn't bite you when you come in the house but might bite a burgler!!!

Mike

wow! the 1st answer is krazy, "they dont like pork" dude, u must really hate the police...well i suspect that the dog knows what its doing and knows not to bite the master or else, u know?

firebobby

They do sometimes. My son in law worked for a firm of solicitors who did work for the Police Federation and appeared for an officer who was suing the Police Authority because he had been badly bitten by a police dog during a raid.

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