'Fake' police dog traps two

A quick thinking police woman stopped fleeing suspects in their tracks by grabbing a passing Labrador and shouting: "Stop! Or I'll release the dog!"

The teenagers didn't have a clue that the barking animal wasn't a police dog and they handed themselves over to Pc Leanne Murphy.

The two boys, aged 15 and 16, were believed to have broken into a mill.



They started to cry after the officer handed the chocolate-coloured labrador back to its owner and they realised they had been hoodwinked.

Pc Murphy said she arrested and handcuffed the boys.

"When I gave the lady her dog back, their faces were quite a picture," she said."They didn't say a word. They started to cry."