This statement is made by the Navy's Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) of the Navy Military Working Dogs (MWD) used at Abu Ghraib prison. He is a Petty Officer and a senior dog handler. As it pertains to Rules of Engagement (ROE) for the use of MWDs at Abu Ghraib prison he stated "We never received any instruction on the use [of dogs] in the compound. We raised question on what we could and could not do in this environment, but we never received a straight answers. I briefed my team to use common sense, and use your [best judgment] as the situation dictates. Based on the escalation of use of force, a dog cannot be employed on a prisoner if that prisoner is not posing a threat." He then described an incident in which his dog was deployed within the prison, "On the night of 24 NOV 03 we were with the Internal Reactionary Force (IRF) when we received a call to search the hard site...I was outside the hard site when I received the call about a dog being needed. I assumed when the call was placed for a dog…needed to conduct a search. I realized once the interrogator threatened the detainee with the dog, that it was not for a search. When my dog lunged, I came forward about three or four seconds and regained control of my dog and pulled him back. My dog's leash is about six foot; it did not extend all the way. They started yelling and screaming and that is when I lost control of my dog again. I couldn't tell the detainees reaction because it was so dark, at that time I was trying to regain control of my dog." He then stated that the Navy Dog Handlers would refuse to participate in detainee interrogations in the future because that is not why they were deployed to the facility and the dogs were not trained to be used in such a way.