🚨 If Police Knock and Say "We're Here About Your Dog" — Say THIS (Before They Take It)

Make Them Pay: https://knowrightsuk.gumroad.com/l/know-your-rights It's an ordinary evening, the dog is asleep on the rug, and two officers at the door say five words: we're here about your dog. Most decent owners smile, hold the door open and say "of course, come in and meet him." That friendly invitation can be the one thing in the whole encounter the officers could not otherwise have made you do. This video separates the request from the power, and gives you three calm sentences for the doorstep. 📋 WHAT THIS VIDEO COVERS — Why the law on dangerous dogs applies anywhere, including inside your own home — What "dangerously out of control" means, including making someone worried it might injure them — The power to seize a dog in a public place without a warrant, s.5(1) Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 — Why taking a dog from a house under the same Act is built around a magistrate's warrant, s.5(2) — "Can we come in and see him?" and what PACE Code B 5.2 says about consent — The implied licence, and how you actually ask officers to leave — The exception: when somebody has been injured, and PACE s.17 — The XL Bully rule: the microchip and the Certificate of Exemption within 5 days — Why you must never hide the dog or invent a story, and Rice v Connolly — Why a dog can face a destruction order even when nobody is prosecuted, s.4B 🔎 SOURCES Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, sections 3, 4B and 5. GOV.UK: Controlling your dog in public. GOV.UK: Ban on XL Bully dogs. PACE 1984 section 17 and Code B paragraph 5.2. Fullard v Woking Magistrates' Court [2005] EWHC 2922 (Admin). Rice v Connolly (1966). Every source is on screen as I read it. ⚠️ THE PART TO REMEMBER "I'm happy to talk to you here at the door. I don't consent to you coming in. Do you have a warrant?" If there is a warrant or another lawful power, or somebody has been hurt, step aside. Never hide the dog, never block the door, never make up an answer. Comply, never resist. Refuse consent, never a lawful order. FREE HELP FIRST. The duty solicitor at a police station costs you nothing, ever, at any hour. Always the free route before anybody paid. 📘 Make Them Pay — how a complaint about a police encounter is actually made, with five template letters and the parts you fill in marked in brackets: https://knowrightsuk.gumroad.com/l/know-your-rights England and Wales only — Scotland is different. This is general legal education, not advice about your situation or your dog. I am a solicitor but not your solicitor. What breed is your dog? One word below, nothing else. #knowyourrights #uklaw #dogowners #dangerousdogsact #ukrights