WEST MIDLANDS: Police officers jokingly filled in a witness statement in the name of a force dog following a CPS mix-up. The Crown Prosecution Service asked for an account of a crime from PC Peach — not realising Peach was the name of a police dog, the Daily Mail reports. The dog's statement read: "I chase him. I bite him. Bad man. He tasty. Good boy. Good boy Peach." The form was signed with a paw print and pinned up at a West Midlands Police station last week. A photograph of the note then found its way on to Facebook. However, the CPS has since complained over the incident, taking issue with the fact that its mistake has become a public joke. West Midlands Police's Professional Standards Department has spoken to the officer who shared the picture — PC Mark Tissington — but he is unlikely to be reprimanded. Ian Edwards, chairman of the West Midlands branch of the Police Federation, said: "It's a difficult time for police and sometimes humour is a way of venting frustrations. I would urge our PSD to be even-handed in the way they deal with it."


