Warning for Plymouth dog owners over postie attacks
PLYMOUTH dog owners whose pets attack posties could be sued or have their postal deliveries stopped, it has emerged.
Royal Mail has vowed to take tough action to protect its postmen and women following an independent inquiry led by a former High Court judge.
The report, commissioned by Royal Mail and prepared by Sir Gordon Langley, comes in the wake of latest figures which show 61 posties were attacked by dogs at city postcode addresses between April 2011 and April this year.
More than 3,000 postal workers were attacked in the UK as a whole over the same period.
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The report recommends that Royal Mail should "actively
pursue legal action" against the owners of dogs which go for postmen and women.
A Royal Mail spokesman said: "As a result of this recommendation, Royal Mail will now ensure that attacks on our people are more likely to be the subject of legal action.
"Royal Mail will also take a more robust approach to the suspension of deliveries where dogs pose a danger to our postmen and women."
Sir Gordon called for new laws to enable tougher action against owners of dangerous dogs.
Legal sanctions currently available in England and Wales when dogs attack people on private property are largely limited to action against the dog: issuing a control order or making an order that the dog be destroyed.
Stronger measures are available under existing law but they exclude attacks which take place on private property.
The Langley Report calls on Parliament to pass new legislation enabling criminal sanctions to be taken against owners of dogs which attack people, wherever it takes place.
It also calls for the compulsory microchipping of dogs.
Comments
by josdave
Saturday, November 24 2012, 2:01PM
“We had a red setter that was good with everyone until a postman started waving his bag at her. After that we had to start keeping her indoors as it made her afraid of anyone with a bag. It's not all the dog's fault but the owners should have more control over their pets.”
by iamajc
Saturday, November 24 2012, 12:07PM
“You have to be sensible, like Sharon, if you think your dog is going to attack someone who comes into your garden you take precautions. We built a wall to separate the front and back gardens when we had the Jack Russel. With the Staffie we have no need because he thinks he's everyones best friend, people are initially a bit wary, due to the amount of bad press the breed gets, but then anyone who actually knows the breed will know what they are really like. Most of the trolls on here spouting rubbish on any report of a dog will be found on another story commenting on the terrible and sensationalist reporting carried out by the herald...”
by Sharon40
Saturday, November 24 2012, 9:09AM
“i am glad this is happening , i have dogs and they never get anywhere near a postperson its safety at work like any other job”
by Foldart
Saturday, November 24 2012, 8:52AM
“DevonMal's comment warmed thew cockles of my heart! :-)”
by iamajc
Saturday, November 24 2012, 12:02AM
“by DevonMal
Friday, November 23 2012, 11:21PM
.
"And thanks Folfart, you know what they say about parrots. Oh, sorry Folfart, these bloody glasses, should have gone to specsavers."
Should have gone to school....nothing to do with your glasses
ps comments are in reverse order, mine took a little longer to write so we were both writing at the same time, from your rapid fire comments I see it takes you about 10 minutes to construct a sentence, or were you fumbling around for your glasses, rotfl cheers easy...”
by iamajc
Friday, November 23 2012, 11:54PM
“Get yer GLASSES on Mal
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Any statistics on dogs killing children, my dog has never killed a child...
All the kids with adhd around your area because you don't control your cat and it's faeces it leaves in their gardens...
Charlie, If you had one more brain cell it would be lonely. nuff said.”
by DevonMal
Friday, November 23 2012, 11:21PM
“And thanks Folfart, you know what they say about parrots. Oh, sorry Folfart, these bloody glasses, should have gone to specsavers.”
by DevonMal
Friday, November 23 2012, 11:12PM
“Yeah, sorry about my spelling mistake, mussels, ha ha as you say iamajc. My bad eye sight, I even thought your name looked like imajerk.”
by DevonMal
Friday, November 23 2012, 10:54PM
“Cats don't kill kids sh£t for brains”
by CharlieDodd
Friday, November 23 2012, 10:02PM
“Iamajc said- 'I had was a jack russel and after a post man teased her by pushing and pulling letters through the letterbox she did develop a disliking for all posties'..
JR's are a genetically-modified freako breed, neurotic and psychotic, they remind me of some mutant thats crawled out of Chernobyl”