Jinhua police, who was raised by dog food?!
Recently, a patrol police dog named "Laosan" from a police station in Jinhua was taken home by a couple while rummaging through a roadside trash bin for food. Days later, the couple was charged with theft by the police and is currently on bail pending trial. When the couple left the police station on bail, they found the dog rummaging through the trash bin by the roadside again! According to further digging by busybodies, this police dog had been taken home by two other citizens while wandering outside in May this year. Those two citizens were convicted of theft, sentenced to criminal detention (suspended), and fined 15,000 yuan.
(Left: The police dog that was taken away; Right: A regular police dog)
[1] Jinhua police claimed on their official microblog that the police dog was wearing a collar when taken, and the couple knew it was a valuable German Shepherd. The implication is that the police are fully justified in treating this as theft. However, the premise of theft is "recognizing that the property is in someone else's possession." Based on current reports: First, a valuable dog does not necessarily mean it has an owner. The police dog was not on a leash or wearing any identification proving it was a police dog when taken. Although the police reported it had a collar, they did not mention any identification on the collar. Second, the police dog was taken while scavenging in a roadside trash bin, and photos show it looked typical of a "poor and scruffy dog," hardly resembling a working state dog. Third, the couple did not use tranquilizers or ropes; they took the dog home peacefully, and reports even suggest the dog followed them willingly. In a previous case, the dog was taken with just a few whistles. In summary, it is even difficult to classify the couple's actions as misappropriation, let alone theft. Furthermore, if a dog bites a person and the person fights back, would that be considered assaulting a police officer? Also, according to the principle of recusal, since the police station is a party involved, it should not handle the case as investigators. Otherwise, if the police made errors in managing the police dog, wouldn't that be like a thief crying "stop thief"?
[2] (Same dog, why such a big difference)
[3] The difference between a police dog and a domestic dog or stray dog is that a police dog, like a police officer, is a civil servant with state financial support. Although it may not enjoy spa treatments or grooming like a wealthy family's pet dog, it should at least be well-fed to serve the people. But the police dog "Lao San" ended up scavenging in roadside trash bins, which is truly shocking. I checked dog food prices on Tmall and found that the 15,000 yuan fine from a few months ago could buy 101 kg of top-tier imported dog food (148.08 yuan per kg), enough to feed a police dog for over half a year. Yet "Lao San" still had to search trash bins for food. Although revenue and expenses are separate, this dramatic contrast inevitably raises questions: Who ate the police dog's food? Are Jinhua police really so poor that they need to take food from a dog's mouth?
[4] Scrape mud from a swallow's beak, shave iron from a needle's tip, scrape gold from a Buddha's face in meticulous search, find something from nothing. Seek peas in a quail's crop, carve lean meat from a heron's leg, scoop fat from a mosquito's belly—how ruthless the old gentleman is.
