Vancouver Police took the unusual step of presenting their side of a June 2011 incident in which a police dog mauled a skateboarder who has subsequently filed a lawsuit against them. Deputy Chief Adam Palmer played a graphic video of skateboarder Chris Evans smashing a Coast Mountain bus repeatedly with his skateboard, screaming profanities and [...]

MARYLAND – A man in a “Frosty the Snowman” costume was led away in handcuffs Saturday morning during the town’s annual Christmas parade, charged with assault and disorderly conduct. Police identified the man as Kevin Michael Walsh, 52, of Chestertown. Walsh was charged with assaulting two police officers and a police dog, according to Sgt. [...]

It seems there will be no summer off for Czar, the Norwalk, Connecticut police dog stabbed through the tongue Saturday while defending his handler, Officer Frank Reda. Czar helped subdue an attacker who charged at Reda while holding two knives Sgt. Andre Velez, who is in contact with Reda, had expressed concern Monday that the [...]

Legislation sponsored by Senators Fred Madden (D-Gloucester/Camden, New Jersey) and Donald Norcross (D-Camden/Gloucester, New Jersey ) that would enhance the penalties for intentionally killing an on-duty police or search and rescue dog was passed by the full Assembly. The measure was drafted in response to the November 30, 2010 killing of Schultz, a 3 1/2 [...]

If Timber could talk, he would say this case is just “ri-dog-ulous”. Mason, Ohio Municipal Court will be the stage for a Constitutional challenge on whether barking at a police dog violates laws against taunting service animals or is protected free speech. Mason, Ohio police cited Ryan Stephens, 25, of Mason, Ohio earlier this month [...]

He was killed in the line of duty and died as the hero he already was. Kane, a black Dutch Shepherd police dog from Clark County, Washington, was chasing Keegan Graves shortly after midnight on Saturday in Vancouver, Washington, after he and a female pal tried to ram a police vehicle in a stolen car. [...]

Dog Files would like PC Gary Saunders to know that our thoughts and prayers go out to him and Baz. – Kenn For Baz, it should have been just a routine police job, but sadly it ended in tragedy. Baz, a six-year-old Alsatian police dog from Northumbria, England, fell off the roof of a building [...]

His name is Memphis, and he will never be forgotten. On Monday afternoon, 40 people and 11 K-9s gathered at the Red Bank Veterinarian Hospital in Tinton Falls, New Jersey to honor Memphis, a 10-year-old German Shepherd police dog before he was to be euthanized. Kevin Geoghan, a Hazlet, NJ police officer, his wife Maria [...]