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, 6, died while trapped in a hot police cruiser on September 4. hawaiicounty_police/Instagram
Officer Sidra Brown was listed as Archer’s handler, according to the Hawaii Police Department website. hawaiicounty_police/Instagram“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 K9 handler involved in this case is devastated as you would expect,” Mahuna said.
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.”
