Armed police shot an ‘out of control’ dog on a street in west London today, just moments after it killed another dog.

Video footage shows a firearms officer pointing their gun at the black-and-tan dog as it drags a smaller dog along the pavement. 

A puff of smoke flies into the air as the officer fires a bullet at the dog, before it whines and scampers up the street on Queens Avenue, Ealing.

People can be heard screaming in the background as two officers then chase after the dog. A woman’s voice can be heard saying: ‘They’ve just shot the dog. Oh my god. S**t.’ 

Footage posted on X, formerly Twitter, shows the moment an armed office shoots an ‘out of control’ dog in Ealing, west London 

Two officers can be seen chasing the mutt (left) after it ran away (right). The dog had killed another canine just moments before. The Met Police has confirmed the dog has been destroyed

The Metropolitan Police confirmed in a statement the dog has since been destroyed to ‘prevent it from causing further serious harm’. 

The force did not give details of the breed of dog and said: ‘We were called at 10.39am on 14 January to a report of a dog out of control having killed another dog in Queens Ave, Greenford. 

‘Officers attended and took the decision to destroy the dog at the scene in order to prevent it from causing further serious harm.

‘We know that this will have been upsetting for those present.’

The 15-second clip has been viewed nearly 15,000 times on the social media platform. 

It comes almost a year since Met Police officers shot dead two ‘dangerously out of control’ dogs that had reportedly attacked a woman.

Videos posted on social media by horrified witnesses in May last year showed a group of police officers following a man with two barking dogs on short leads along a canal in Limehouse, east London.

Officers were seen in a heated row with the man as he continued to hold on to his dogs and attempt to calm them down.

The situation quickly escalated with one of the black dogs being shot dead, while the screaming owner was then tasered and pinned to the ground.

The second dog was subsequently shot dead as screaming witnesses looked down at the scene from balconies of surrounding flat blocks.

Shocking footage last May showed the moment a group of Met police officers shot dead two ‘dangerously out of control’ dogs

In the video the man who had the two dogs on short leads is also tasered as horrified witnesses scream in the background 

The London police force defended its actions explaining that the officers had ‘a duty to act where necessary before any further injury was caused’.

The Met said at the time they were forced to act swiftly because ‘the aggressive behaviour of two dogs was of considerable concern’.

Officers had been called to the scene following reports of a woman being attacked by the dog on Commercial Road in Tower Hamlets.

The dogs were said to be ‘of considerable concern’ and posed a ‘significant threat to’ officers who attended the scene.

No one was taken to hospital as a result of the attack, but a man was arrested in connection with having a dangerously out of control dog.