Posted on 06/28/2011 9:13:27 PM PDT by Immerito
A London Metropolitan Police dog handler has reportedly tried to kill himself after two police dogs he left in the back of his car on one of the hottest days of the year died.
British media is reporting that Sergeant Ian Craven jumped from a colleague’s vehicle and later slashed his wrists when he learned that the two dogs had died. In an interview with the Toronto Star on Tuesday, the police force refused to confirm whether those reports were true.
The two dogs, a Belgian Malinois named Chay and a five-month-old German shepherd puppy called Milly, died Sunday after Craven allegedly left the animals in the back of an unventilated car at the police force’s dog training centre in the London suburb of Keston for an unspecified amount of time.
Temperatures in London on Sunday reached 29 C. The temperature inside a car can reach as high was 47 C within an hour when the outside temperature is just 22 C, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The RSPCA told the Star that officers were somehow made aware that the two dogs were in the back of the vehicle during the day. They smashed the windows, pulled the animals out and quickly doused them with water. By the time the dogs were taken to a vet surgery, they had died.
“Two dogs have died that shouldn’t have,” Police Commander Bob Broadhurst told Reuters.
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Sad doggie ping.
Idiot.
LORD, have mercy.
CHRIST, have mercy.
LORD, have mercy.
Amen.
What’s even sadder is that this is not the first case for this officer.
One would hope that having experienced such a tragedy before would make him more driven to prevent its repetition.
[. . .Ian Craven jumped from a colleague’s vehicle and later slashed his wrists. . .]
Stupid is as stupid does.
Just heartbreaking.
What the HELL was he thinking???
Deserves jail time.
Get a grip, man. Irresponsible, maybe criminally so; maybe career-ending; and the height of cruel negligence for a dog-handler, but attempting to kill yourself? They’re dogs, not people: animals in police service to spare human life. You wasted theirs, indefensibly so - taking your own life though, even for failures resulting in the deaths of people, is still a sin.
In basic training, they used to give proper instruction on how to properly slice your own wrists, this guy sounds overly dramatic.
Too many pints?
Intentional cruelty against animals is a crime. Unintentional injury to animals is not. Worship of animals is paganism.
Truly no excuse for this. Basic Animal commonsense 101: Do NOT leave your pet/animal in a locked car during the day. Period. It’s not worship of animals to know that you are responsible for their care and well-being and to act accordingly. In fact, it’s Biblical. Leaving an animal in a locked car in daylight is an intentional act and it’s hard to believe ANYONE hasn’t gotten the memo that heat kills in a hurry in such conditions and it should never be done! Especially wondering why he was allowed to have these animals in the first place since he’s done this before. Unbelievable.
At long last we see an example of an Officer of the State at least attempting to do the right thng after a monumental screw up. Hopefully those SWAT goons in Arizona will do the same, only successfully.
“In 2004, he was reprimanded for allegedly leaving a spaniel in a baking-hot car on a July day. That dog also died.”
Oy freaking veh.
You’re a dog handler?
Thank goodness you’re not a “child minder” as they say in the UK.
It never seems to fail that stories of people leaving pets and children in cars during the hottest parts of the year are quite common this time of the year. I’ve made too many calls to LE when I’ve seen dogs left in hot vehicles with the windows up, or only down slightly. I’ve made a few regarding a child left in said situation. Heartbreaking are the stories of children and pets who have died because of this. There’s no understanding this.
Horrible cruelity in the worse way!
>Intentional cruelty against animals is a crime. Unintentional injury to animals is not. Worship of animals is paganism.<
Ok, I missed any mention of animal worship, but at least one of these dogs was a trained police dog and as such, was a valuable tool. That ignoramus of an officer was equipped to know that a hot car can kill a dog - he’d killed a spaniel in the same manner before.
So, your suggestion of unintentional injury is a stretch in this case. He destroyed police property by gross negligence.
Should he have attempted suicide over the loss of the dogs? Well, no, but we don’t know what demons with which the man had to deal.
I have ZERO pity for this guy now that I know he’s done this before and that dog died, too!
I never heard of these types of stories say 30 yrs ago or more.
Mandated car seats(mom always held the baby on her lap),tinted windows and morons who claim to have other things on their minds,mainly their phones.
I find it extremely difficult to believe any of their excuses.
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