They would and should charge anybody who leaves a child or animal in the car police or not. You never know the vehicle could die then what.
Mary Overton 816-457-0597 >________________________________ > From: Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 6:32 PM >Subject: [Chihuahuas] Iowa police dog dies in overheated patrol car!! > > > > >Duh!! This is the second police dog to have died in an overheated patrol car >this summer. The other incident took the life of a GS in a southern state two >months ago. That officer was proven negligent, and removed from the dog squad >permanently. I sure hope this was just a faulty a/c and not that the officer >was that dumb! > >Peggy & The Girls > >http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/31/13594511-iowa-police-dog-dies-after-being-left-in-des-moines-patrol-car?lite > > >Iowa police dog dies after being left in Des Moines patrol car >By Vignesh Ramachandran > >The Labrador retriever, named Harley, was a 7-year veteran of the Des Moines >Police Department, NBC station WHO reported. >Officials were unsure whether the car's air conditioning was on, if any >windows were rolled down or how long the yellow lab was in the car, The Des >Moines Register reported. >The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon, according to CBS station KCCI. Des >Moines' recorded high temperature Wednesday was 95 degrees, according to The >Weather Channel. >Police say Harley was paired with Officer Brian Mathis on the department's >vice and narcotics unit. >"What we know is that when he came back to the car, his partner of seven years >had died," Des Moines Police Sgt. Chris Scott told the Register.Officials said >Mathis had no history of handling the dog poorly, according to the Register, >and Des Moines police have eight other K-9s."[Harley's] investigations have >taken a lot of drugs off the streets," Scott told CBS station KCCI. "Harley >was not a stranger to anybody down here. We lost a fellow officer who just >happened to be a dog." >Scott said officials were determining whether criminal charges would be filed, >WHO reported.“There is nobody that could be more upset and traumatized by this >than Officer Mathis,” Scott told WHO. >The Police Department's public information office did not immediately respond >to a voice mail Friday afternoon. >
