There have been more than 750 attacks on guide dogs since 2014

• GUIDE Dogs continue to highlight the issue of dog attacks. Five years since new laws were introduced, dogs owned, trained and cared for by the Camden-based charity Guide Dogs are still too often being attacked by other dogs.

There have been more than 750 attacks on the charity’s dogs since 2014, and its latest figures show an increase of nine per cent in reported attacks since the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act was introduced in that year.

The act reclassifies a dog attack on an assistance dog as an aggravated offence, and penalties include up to three years’ imprisonment.

To mark the anniversary of the change in the law the charity helped to create, Guide Dogs is working with the police to ensure these attacks are taken seriously. Guide Dogs also continues to urge the public to take responsibility for their dogs.

ROSEMARY NICHOLSON
Visually Impaired in Camden