[mountainpass]

http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/157332593-story?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

The Cherokee County Marshal’s Office said it and the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office were called out to the home of a Cherokee County School Police Officer. Officials said they found a 4- year-old Belgian Malinois named Inca, dead in the rear of the patrol car.

According to release sent to FOX 5 news, the officer who handles Inca said he got out of his patrol around 4:15 p.m. and went into his home to deal with another dog. Around 7 p.m., the officer told investigators he remembered about Inca and went outside to find the dog dead.

 

[mountainpass]

http://www.cbs46.com/story/32197850/police-k9-dies-after-being-left-in-patrol-car-for-nearly-3-hours

 

[mountainpass]

http://www.11alive.com/news/police-k9-left-in-patrol-car-dies-in-cherokee-county/239446154

Officials said at a Saturday press conference that Peabody lent his K9 vehicle to another officer whose vehicle was out of service.

They said Peabody drove home that day in a Ford Crown Victoria that was not equipped with cages or alarms and they believe that "played a factor" in what later unfolded at the home.

"This vehicle was not equipped with alarms, it was not equipped with a kennel," Marshal Chief Ron Hunton said.
"It wasn't equipped in the manner that you see normally in a K9 vehicle. I certainly have to say that obviously that had an impact on this."

Official documents said that each K9 and handler is certified annually by the National Narcotic Detector Dog Association and department training occurs on a weekly basis.

The document, a Cherokee County School District Police Department status report from Dec. 3 has since been taken down as has a Facebook page dedicated to the school district K9 unit.

 

[gsusnake]

Lock him in a hot car for 3 hours.

Nothing pisses me off quite like animal abuse.

 

[mountainpass]

Another similar case from 2013, oddly from Woodstock(city in Cherokee County): http://www.georgiapacking.org/forum/showthread.php?t=251224&highlight=dead+patrol

 

[Wegahe]

Charge him like any other person not with the police would have been.

 

[a_springfield]

He killed a cop, right? He should at the very least be charged with animal cruelty, have to buy and pay for training a new dog out of his pocket, be fired.

 

[AtlPhilip]

Second time in Cherokee since 2013

 

[Craftsman]

They will just buy another cue dog. Just a cost of doing business.

 

[Rugerer]

They will just buy another cue dog. Just a cost of doing business.

It costs a lot of money to train a dog to find drugs on command.

 

[Nemo]

There in NO valid reason he "forgot" the dog was in the car and let the woofer die. Cop is incompetent and without a doubt intentionally killed the dog. He needs killed himself.

Nemo

 

[CoffeeMate]

That dog trusted him, and held that trust until it died.

 

[Wegahe]

that dog trusted him, and held that trust until it died was murdered.

i fify

 

[a_springfield]

There in NO valid reason he "forgot" the dog was in the car and let the woofer die. Cop is incompetent and without a doubt intentionally killed the dog. He needs killed himself.

Nemo

He was driving a standard patrol car with out a kennel so the dog was clearly visible through the plexiglass cage. The windows would not have a kennel door so he would be able to see the dog as he shut the door (unless that car has the windows tinted darker than an average peasant is allowed, you know officer safety) he needs to be charged like anyother person for killing a police dog.

 

[Solomon_G]

he needs to be charged like any other person for killing a police officer.

That is what would happen to any one of us had we done that to a K9unit dog...

**** even the average pet dog you serve time....think he will?....no.

 

[Fallschirmjäger]

O.C.G.A. 16-11-107 Destroying or injuring police dog or police horse.
(b) Any person who knowingly and intentionally destroys or causes serious or debilitating physical injury to a police dog or police horse, knowing said dog to be a police dog or said horse to be a police horse, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years, or a fine not to exceed $10,000.00, or both. This subsection shall not apply to the destruction of a police dog or police horse for humane purposes.

His only hope is claiming he was so incompetent that he didn't know what he was doing.

 

[Fallschirmjäger]

I'll be real interested in seeing if this canine gets the usual 'officer's funeral' complete with cars with their blue lights flashing and officers in their dress uniforms.

 

[AtlPhilip]

he needs to be charged like anyother person for killing a police officer.

Animals are not humans. To establish that police are a superior class of humans is wrong. To establish that police animals are superior to the average human being is obscene.

There in NO valid reason he "forgot" the dog was in the car and let the woofer die. Cop is incompetent and without a doubt intentionally killed the dog. He needs killed himself.

This.

 

[a_springfield]

Animals are not humans. To establish that police are a superior class of humans is wrong. To establish that police animals are superior to the average human being is obscene.

This.

Used wrong word should have said dog. Dang auto correct saw police and another letter and changed it.

 

[AtlPhilip]

Used wrong word should have said dog. Dang auto correct saw police and another letter and changed it.

Dogs are property, nothing more. He should be required to pay the fair market value of a puppy and not one cent more.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.