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By Canadian Press

internal review into incident

Handlers to continue bringing Calgary police dogs home

Aug 13, 2019 | 7:06 AM

CALGARY- The Calgary Police Service says it expects off-duty dogs will continue to go home with their handlers despite one animal biting an officer’s young son.

The officer was grooming the dog on a deck Saturday afternoon when the boy approached and was bitten.

The child has been released from hospital, where he was treated for serious injuries, and the dog is in a police kennel.

Inspector Nancy Farmer with the police service’s support section says the dog had been with his handler for about two months and didn’t have any known behavioural problems.

She says police are reviewing what happened and are to decide whether practices should be improved.

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She adds it’s important to the well-being of police dogs that they continue to live in their handlers’ homes instead of in kennels.