“Two of our K-9s passed away on Sept. 8,\u201d said assistant chief of police and acting public information officer Simon T. Manacop. “The dogs were inside a patrol car when the aircon malfunctioned and started blowing hot air.”<\/p>\n
He added that the K-9 handlers that day had originally left the dogs in the car with the A\/C on as they went to secure drug evidence at DPS headquarters.<\/p>\n
“They returned to the vehicle 30 minutes later and discovered the dogs passed out.”<\/p>\n
“One passed that same morning,” said Manacop. “Officers attempted to resuscitate but were unsuccessful. The other one was rushed to a veterinarian but also passed in the evening.”<\/p>\n
When asked if it was normal for DPS personnel to leave K-9 officers unattended in the car, Manacop stated. “It is standard procedure that the dogs be left in the vehicle with air-con on while they perform other duties, such as while they were securing evidence,” he added.<\/p>\n
Pertaining to the matter not being made public, or known to the media, Manacop replied that it had been requested by DPS Commissioner Anthony Macaranas to keep the ceremony private.<\/p>\n
When addressing the rumors that the situation had been a cover up, Manacop said that it had been “no cover up.” He said that the incident is currently being investigated by DPS’ Professional Responsibilities Office.<\/p>\n
“There is an active investigation being conducted… in reference to the death of the two K-9s. If an officer is found to have violated any procedures that caused the death, they would face disciplinary actions.”<\/p>\n
He added, “Now, procedures could be administrative, but the investigation could also take into account criminal violations. If there are criminal statutes that were violated, officers may also face criminal actions.”<\/p>\n The Department of Public Safety\u2019s officers and staff attend a solemn memorial service for two K-9 officers last Friday at DPS headquarters in Susupe.<\/p>\n -CHRYSTAL MARINO A small private burial ceremony was held at the Department of Public Safety headquarters in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/bbb6cd5fd53400ef1b6426bc2dc03ae4.jpg\")
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