Dangerous Dogs Act 1991

Dear Amanda

ref GSA 983/09
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Amanda Dunckley To FOI requests at Greater Manchester
<[FOI #8408 email]> Police
<[Greater Manchester Police request email]>
24/02/2009 15:03 cc
Subject Freedom of Information request -
Dangerous Dogs Act 1991

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am contacting you concerning the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, as
amended, legislation.

1) How many dogs have been seized under Section One of the
Dangerous Dogs Act in each year from 2000 to 2008?

2) How many prosecutions under Section One and Section Three of the
Dangerous Dogs Act did the Manchester police proceed with in 2007
and 2008?

3)How many dogs have been seized under Section One of the Dangerous
Dogs Act so far this year (2009)? Of those seized, how many have
been signed over for destruction by their owners?

4) How many applications have been made to the magistrates court
under section 4b of the Dangerous Dogs Act in the last three years?
Of those 4b applications, how many resulted in destruction orders
and how many resulted in registration onto the Index of Exempted
Dogs?

5) How many dogs are currently held under Section One and Section
Three of the Dangerous Dogs Act?

6) What number of dogs seized under Section One of the Dangerous
Dogs Act over the last three years, have been destroyed or have
died whilst in police custody, due to illness, injury or disease?

Yours faithfully,

Amanda Dunckley

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Dear Ms Dunckley

Please find attached the response to your recent request made under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Many thanks

Amanda Ratcliffe
Information Access Officer
Information Governance Unit
Information Management Branch
Internal - 62531
External - 0161-856-2531
email - [email address]

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