Lancashire Chief Constable apologises for

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Striking apprentices in Manchester had occasion to complain to the Manchester and Salford Trades Council about the use by the police of dogs at their meetings and picket lines. After receiving the complaint the Trades Council wrote to the Chief Constable of Lancashire and protested. They described the action of the police as “a violation of civic rights" and “an interference with the freedom of public assemblies", The Chief Qonstable replied that "it was not the policy of his force to have dogs at strike meetings." He assured the Trades Council that this wouldn't happen agein and made the rather weak-sounding excuse that in "this instance a dog handler had gone to Trafford Park on relief duty; he should have left his dogs at the police stdion."