Police admit setting dogs on blacks 'as exercise'

Four South African policemen today admitted setting dogs on three black men in a video-taped attack and claimed it was an exercise.

Jacobus Petrus Smith, 31, Lodewyk Christiaan Koch, 32, Robert Benjamin Henzen, 32, and Eugene Werner Truter, 28, said that the 1998 assaults were aimed at teaching inexperienced police dogs to attack on instruction.