Police are this morning interviewing witnesses after a deaf and mute man was seriously mauled by police dogs during an armed offenders squad (AOS) callout in Porirua on Tuesday night.
The 38-year-old man remains in Hutt Hospital with serious leg injuries.
He was bitten by police dogs after he did not respond to police demands to open the door to his Cannons Creek, west Porirua, flat.
The AOS had been called to the address after a man was reported to be armed with a pistol.
The injured man was alleged to have threatened two residents of the flats with a replica pistol.
Detective Paula Holt of Porirua CIB had this morning been interviewing the injured man in hospital.
"No one's been charged at this stage. We're still talking to the person involved," she said.
She could not say if it was likely the man or anybody else would be charged with any offence.
"We've still got a number of people to speak to in relation to Tuesday night and I can't say too much more."
The Police Complaints Authority would be investigating the incident, as it did whenever somebody was injured in a police operation.
Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Oxnam, also of Porirua, earlier said it was standard operating procedure for dogs to be sent in when calls to open a door in an AOS callout were not answered.
A neighbour of the injured man said he was deaf and mute and would not have heard demands made by police.
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