Two Calgary cops injured whereas making arrest

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Two Calgary cops had been taken to hospital Saturday after being bit by a canine whereas making an arrest.

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CPS officers had been responding to reviews {that a} automobile had been stolen by a person strolling his canine from the northeast neighborhood of Marlborough after it had been left operating. A police helicopter noticed the automobile and officers on the bottom started to observe the suspect inside.

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Officers adopted the automobile to the neighborhood of Applewood Park within the metropolis’s southeast the place the suspect fled from the automobile and tried to enter a residence close to 16 Avenue and 70 Avenue S.E. He was in a position to make his approach onto a second-floor balcony earlier than police negotiated with him to come back down, the place he was arrested.

Workers Sgt. John Guigon confirmed Saturday afternoon that two officers had been bitten by the suspect’s canine whereas they tried to make an arrest.

“Two members had been bitten they usually’re on the way in which to the Foothills for stitches,” mentioned Guigon. “The canine was not harmed.”

The canine has since been turned over to bylaw officers.

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