A Hawaiian police dog died in a hot car when its handler abandoned her animal partner “for an unacceptable period of time.”
Archer, a 6-year-old Belgian Malinois-German Shepherd mix, died in a police vehicle on last Thursday after his handler Sidra Brown forgot about the drug sniffing pup in the car, the Hawaii Police Department announced in a press release.
“Archer was not just a police dog, he was a partner, protector, and a member of our police family,” Interim Police Chief Reed Mahuna wrote in the release. “This was a preventable tragedy.”
The crime-fighting canine worked alongside handler Officer Brown in “numerous operations,” according to the department’s website.
The department is conducting a comprehensive review of its K9 policies and procedures.
A profile on the department’s website said Archer enjoyed “being handsome and eating mangoes.”
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