{"id":120212,"date":"2025-05-21T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120212\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:16:09","slug":"moment-police-k9s-assisted-firearms-officers-in-dramatic-birmingham-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120212\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment police K9s assisted firearms officers in dramatic Birmingham arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were arrested in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> after firearms teams were assisted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> dog unit following a foot chase.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PD (Police Dog) Kelly assisted firearms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officers<\/a> when they pursued two offenders who rushed from a car in the Birmingham area on Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One suspected offender was detained when PD Kelly chased them down, before she tracked another suspected offender from the abandoned car, finding them hiding nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokesperson said: &#8220;Last night in Birmingham, AD27 &amp; PD Kelly were on scene to assist when offenders ran from a car being pursued by West Midlands Police Firearms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PD Kelly detained on running away, then tracked from the abandoned vehicle to where another was hiding nearby. Great result.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were arrested in Birmingham after firearms teams were assisted by the West Midlands Police dog unit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-120212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114546722953554663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}