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MORE than 40 police officers and a force helicopter swarmed round a family home over a complaint of a dog biting another in a street.

In farcical scenes, reminiscent of the Keystone Cops, a dog squad was also rushed to the Khan family residence near Glasgow .

The incident escalated after two police constables called at the upmarket house in Cambuslang to talk to the dog’s owner, Omar Khan, who wasn’t even in.

Within 10 minutes, dozens of officers arrived and unknown to the police, the massive deployment was caught on the family’s personal CCTV.

The staggering footage shows a steady stream of officers filing in to their drive in a response sharply contrasting with Police Scotland’s handling of more serious cases.

The force has faced a barrage of criticism over a series of bungled investigations and financial blackholes.

Three of Omar’s brothers, Imran, 32, Yusuf, 33, and Sheban, 29, were handcuffed and arrested during the dog-related incident last Decemeber.

After an anxious four-month wait, all charges against them have been dropped and the family have now lodged an official complaint with Police Scotland.

The Khans claim they were subjected to racism, assault and harrassment, alleging that Imran was called a black b*****d by the constable who arrested him.

Imran, was handcuffed, with the constable then dragging him out of the house and pinning him to the ground.

Imran had only been released home from hospital, an hour earlier, following a suspected heart attack.

The CCTV clock, set one hour ahead of real time, shows the male and female constables entering the house at 09.09 and then emerging four minutes later.

In that time the the female officer claimed she was “abducted” by Sheban.

The family claim the male constable pressed an alarm for back up, after father of three, Yusuf, threatened to call the police himself to complain about the officer’s behaviour.

Within two minutes, two plain clothes and six uniformed officers ran up the drive and into to the house.

Another 11 police officers, including four plain clothes arrive within one minute and arrive to discover they have nothing to do but mill around.

At one point it looks more like an informal gathering than an official police response, as one officer reaches out to shake the hand of another, before they have a brief catch up.

Incredibly, another 15 officers came running up the drive in the next two minutes and nine more appeared, three minutes after that.

In the meantime a dog squad was on stand-by and a police helicopter was hovering above the property, in a response usually reserved for a major incident.

Imran, a father of three, who works in the family takeaway, cried as he recounted his ordeal.

He said:”I had never even had so much as a punishment exercise at school, never mind any trouble with the police and yet I was dragged out of my home like a criminal. I spent a night in the cells and as long as I live, I will always be traumatised by what happened.

“Within minutes, there were so many police. They were just rushing in. I had never seen so many police in my life.

“There are so many crimes happening in Scotland, rapes and murders, yet so much police time, money and effort was allowed to be wasted over allegations of a dog biting a dog. It is disgusting.”

When the doorbell rang, Imran’s wife Mehwish, 29, answered, with her three year-old son Daniel at her side, and told the officers that Omar wasn’t home.

She said: “I told them I didn’t know where Omar was and the threatened to arrest me and the male officer said Daniel would be taken in to care. I was terrified. The male constable had his foot inside the house and I told him to wait, while I got Yusuf.”

Yusuf said he gave the officer Omar’s mobile but the constable insisted he was withholding information of his brother’s whereabouts and threatened to arrest him and everyone in the property, including their 80 year-old grandmother, with the eight children in the family house, being placed in care.

Mehwish said: “They had no warrant but were insisting they would come in and the male officer was so aggressive, shouting that the children would be taken away.”

Imran, who had been resting upstairs, rushed down to the door and when he insisted he didn’t know where Omar was, the officer also threatened to arrest him.

The family claim that it was when Yusuf lifted the phone in the hall to call the police for help, the constable pressed the panic button on his shoulder.

He then walked in to the hall, handcuffed Imran, dragged him out of the house and pushed him face down on the drive.

Imran said: “He had me pinned on the ground, shouting at the female officer to taser my family who were standing at the door pleading to leave me alone because I had heart problems. He was calling me a black b*****d.

“The female constable held up her taser but didn’t do it. You could see that she was panicking because she knew he was in the wrong.”

When back up arrived, they handcuffed and arrested Yusuf and Sheban, who together run the family garage business.

Yusuf, who has a clean record, also has a congenital heart problem and Sheban’s wife had given birth to a baby boy a week before, who was sick and hospitalised.

The CCTV also show the men’s father Abdul, 55, being lambasted by the CID when he pulls out his phone to get help.

Sheban, who has historical convictions for assault, was held on remand in Barlinnie Prison for four months, on charges of abduction.

All three men were charged with assaulting police officers until charges were dropped following the defence’s production of the CCTV footage.

Last night Aamer Anwar, the lawyer acting for Yusuf and Imran, said the male officer had sparked an “over the top “ reaction and the two officers had barged into the Khan home illegally.

He said: “In all my years of practising I have never seen such CCTV footage. Dozens of officers stormed into the Khan’s home in response to a panic alarm being activated. Normally members of the public are lucky if a police will attend several days later.

“My client Imran Khan was held on the ground in the prone position whilst the officer aggressively wielded his taser in the direction of the female family members. The other two accused are then seen calmly speaking with officers who attended, yet despite this, they were also arrested.”

At the evidential hearing at Glasgow Sheriff Court, the male constable, mixed up the identities of Yusuf and Imran and had to be reprimanded by Sheriff Jones, for his attitude in court.

Mr Anwar said: “It was extremely lucky for the Khans that there was CCTV which the police were unaware of otherwise it would have been their word against the Police.

“This officer must be investigated for his attitude and behaviour. It is unacceptable for any officer to act aggressively or to break the law and the treatment of the Khans was disgusting. My client or his family will never trust the police again.”

This latest incident will heap further criticism on Police Scotland which is already under intense fire in a series of controversial cases.

The force is the subject of a number of investigations by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner.

It is looking in to the death of Sheku Bayoh, 31, who was from Sierra Leone but lived in Fife, after he was restrained by police, lost consciousness and later died in hospital last May.

Prosecutors have also been handed a report into how police handled a search for a missing pensioner who was found dead.

Janet McKay, 88, went missing on 16 September and her body was discovered on wasteland in Clydebank on last September.

Two days after her appearance a member of the public told officers making door to door enquiries of a possible sighting.

Earlier last year, the deaths of John Yuill, 28, and Lamara Bell, 25, sparked a PIRC investigation.

Police Scotland failed to act on a sighting of their crashed car off the M9. Yuill died in the crash and Bell, who lay injured for 72 hours, died a week later in hospital.

The force is also suffering from a lack of cash.

Last year Audit Scotland said that, even if there is a one per cent annual increase to the budget until 2020/21, “there could still be a cumulative funding gap of over £80million by 2018/19 unless additional savings are made”..

And complaints against Police Scotland soared by almost 45 per cent in last year.