West Yorkshire Police: Dogs

(asked on 13th September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police dogs are available at any given time to the West Yorkshire Police Force; and how such police dogs are geographically deployed.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 16th September 2016

Operational decisions on the availability and deployment of dogs are made on a force by force basis and are a matter for chief constables, working with their Police and Crime Commissioners.

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