- Police canine Vinnie chased the thief via a backyard centre in Wyton, Cambs
- Burglar Ricky Homer, 36, had helped himself to charity tins and items
- Homer has pleaded responsible to housebreaking and possession of a Class B drug
A heroic police canine was caught on video pinning an ‘opportunistic’ burglar to the ground as he tried to flee a backyard centre with stolen charity tins and items.
The footage, recorded on a bodycam, reveals police canine Vinnie being let unfastened by a police officer at night time in Dobbies Garden Centre in Wyton, Cambridgeshire final October.
Vinnie then speeds forward of his handler via the backyard centre’s elaborate indoor shows in scorching pursuit of the thief.
As the courageous canine bursts via the building’s seating space in whole darkness, the Police Constable may be heard shouting, ‘police officer with a canine! Stand nonetheless!’
The burglar, named as Ricky Homer, makes an attempt to cover in a kids’s play space however the pair quickly spot him cowering within the nook of the room.
The PC orders Homer to ‘get flat on the ground’ and put his palms on the again of his head earlier than Vinnie pins him down.
The officer is then capable of make the arrest with the police canine barking on the thief within the background.
Homer, 36, had been noticed by CCTV operators simply after 11pm on October 23 final yr as he helped himself to charity tins and piled buying trolleys filled with backyard centre items.
Security rang the police earlier than aiding Vinnie and his handler find the burglar.
Homer was sentenced to a yr in jail at Cambridge Crown Court final Friday after beforehand pleading responsible to housebreaking and possession of a Class B drug.
Last August, Homer was sentenced to twenty weeks in jail for a string of offences together with assaulting emergency employees, theft, fraud by false illustration and car interference.
Detective Constable Neil Patrick, who investigated the incident, mentioned: ‘Homer is an opportunist burglar with various crimes beneath his belt.
‘Thanks to the partnership working of the alarm firm and CCTV operators, the officers on the scene and Police Dog Vinnie, Homer was swiftly arrested and is now behind bars for a yr.’
