First Conviction Under ‘Finn’s Law’

PD Tammy

Leicestershire Police has secured one of the first convictions in the country for an assault against one of its team of specialist dogs.

Police Dog Tammy was grabbed around the scruff of the neck when she and her handler were called to a domestic incident in Leicester earlier this year.

Anthony Mee, of Herle Avenue, Braunstone, has been sentenced to a 12 month community order after pleading guilty to the offence of ‘causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal’.

Known as Finn’s Law, the new offence was introduced to protect police dogs and horses, named after Police Dog Finn, who was almost killed protecting his handler from a teenager with a knife in Hertfordshire.