Dangerous Dogs: Police Custody

(asked on 29th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that dogs taken into police custody under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 are processed and released in a timely manner.


Answered by
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Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 7th July 2020

Every effort is made to ensure that cases involving dogs held under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 are processed on time. The magistrates’ courts continue to increase their number of hearings and the range of types of cases heard has also increased with the reintroduction of first hearing guilty and anticipated not guilty plea cases commencing. Trials, in small numbers, also continue to be listed. Dogs seized by police in England under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 are held in confidence in kennels licensed under The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018. Such kennels must meet statutory minimum animal welfare conditions, including that dogs are kept safely and receive appropriate levels of exercise. The 2018 Regulations are enforced by local authorities.

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