BBC NEWS | Wales | Police officers kicked pet dogs

Britain's finest, doing what comes natural.......



(From the BBC report)

Two police officers have been told they face possible jail sentences for causing suffering and "mental terror" to their two pet dogs.

Magistrates in Denbigh heard how Anja Mason, 29 and Craig Macleod, 34, who lived together in Prestatyn, now also face losing their jobs.

A neighbour filmed them hitting and kicking the pets and called the RSPCA.

Both admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a collie pup called Tess and Macleod to a rottweiler, Snoopy.

Both officers, who will be sentenced on 25 November, have been removed from frontline duties until the end of the case, a North Wales Police force spokesman.

The court was told a neighbour had been concerned about the ill-treatment of dogs at the property and had called the RSPCA on several occasions.

Asked about the fact the defendants are police officers, he said: "We prosecute without discrimination, and always fairly, so their occupation is irrelevant as far as we're concerned.

Well, we feel that their occupation as a public servant does rend them more accountable for their actions than that of say, an 75 year old Alzheimer's sufferer unable to look their animals.

Not only that, it shows traits of underlying cruelty, an inability to control themselves and a propensity to use violence to achieve their objective.

Are these traits what we wish our police officers to possess? or do we need psychologically sound and rationally balanced police patrolling our streets?

BBC NEWS | Wales | Police officers kicked pet dogs

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