Justice for Bingo and all Police Animals
Justice for Bingo and all Police Animals
The Issue
https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/stories/tragic-loss-of-police-dog/
On July 25, Bingo Toronto Police Dog was allegedly murdered by a man who had previously allegedly murdered a woman. This man should be charged with cruelty under Quanto’s Law and the Provincial Animal Welfare Act, and be banned from having animals. The relationship between intimate partner violence and animal cruelty is strong, as seen in this tragic case. https://www.siu.on.ca/en/directors_report_details.php?drid=2707
Police animals do not choose their dangerous work. Dogs and horses are not adequately protected. They should be given bullet proof vests, just like their human companions. Police services should have a civilian third party Animal Welfare Team on its board to oversee animal care, housing, veterinary care, training, and transport, to retire animals to sanctuaries, to phase out the use of animals in dangerous work, and investigate any time any animal is injured or killed in relation to police, or a person is injured or killed by a police animal. All training must be done only using positive methods. Police should stop buying animals from breeders, this promotes animal agriculture, and there are many homeless animals.
Police must refine, reduce, and ultimately replace the use of animals with non animal alternatives for such a dangerous task as police work. Dogs and horses do not choose to put their lives at risk. The use of police dogs and horses as weapons or to pursue dangerous persons must stop, and be replaced with modern technology. A recent study demonstrates that 57.1% of uses of force cases against persons of colour involve a police dog. Horses are also used as weapons. https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/impact-action-final-report-anti-black-racism-toronto-police-service/chapter-7-use-force-gaps-policies-and-procedures These animals are born as family members loving all humans; it is unnatural to teach them to bite and maul people. Recently, a man in Midland Ontario died after being bitten by an OPP dog during a pursuit. https://www.cp24.com/news/siu-investigating-death-of-45-year-old-man-bitten-by-police-dog-in-midland-1.6635100
(Warning, this link contains graphic photos of dog bites). https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/pivotlegal/pages/648/attachments/original/1403740129/Moving_to_Minimum_Force.pdf?1403740129
There needs to be a campaign to phase out police animals in dangerous work, and only employ dogs and horses in safe, peaceful activities like finding missing persons and to act as therapists to calm down traumatized persons. All use of police animals, (with lots of crime, hard pavement, and little to no veterinary care for horses,) is outdated and should be abolished, unless the animals are used only as search and rescue, and/or therapy animals (with horses living at a farm). All the horses and dogs currently being used should be retired as companions to their handlers or retired to sanctuaries.
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The Issue
https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/stories/tragic-loss-of-police-dog/
On July 25, Bingo Toronto Police Dog was allegedly murdered by a man who had previously allegedly murdered a woman. This man should be charged with cruelty under Quanto’s Law and the Provincial Animal Welfare Act, and be banned from having animals. The relationship between intimate partner violence and animal cruelty is strong, as seen in this tragic case. https://www.siu.on.ca/en/directors_report_details.php?drid=2707
Police animals do not choose their dangerous work. Dogs and horses are not adequately protected. They should be given bullet proof vests, just like their human companions. Police services should have a civilian third party Animal Welfare Team on its board to oversee animal care, housing, veterinary care, training, and transport, to retire animals to sanctuaries, to phase out the use of animals in dangerous work, and investigate any time any animal is injured or killed in relation to police, or a person is injured or killed by a police animal. All training must be done only using positive methods. Police should stop buying animals from breeders, this promotes animal agriculture, and there are many homeless animals.
Police must refine, reduce, and ultimately replace the use of animals with non animal alternatives for such a dangerous task as police work. Dogs and horses do not choose to put their lives at risk. The use of police dogs and horses as weapons or to pursue dangerous persons must stop, and be replaced with modern technology. A recent study demonstrates that 57.1% of uses of force cases against persons of colour involve a police dog. Horses are also used as weapons. https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/impact-action-final-report-anti-black-racism-toronto-police-service/chapter-7-use-force-gaps-policies-and-procedures These animals are born as family members loving all humans; it is unnatural to teach them to bite and maul people. Recently, a man in Midland Ontario died after being bitten by an OPP dog during a pursuit. https://www.cp24.com/news/siu-investigating-death-of-45-year-old-man-bitten-by-police-dog-in-midland-1.6635100
(Warning, this link contains graphic photos of dog bites). https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/pivotlegal/pages/648/attachments/original/1403740129/Moving_to_Minimum_Force.pdf?1403740129
There needs to be a campaign to phase out police animals in dangerous work, and only employ dogs and horses in safe, peaceful activities like finding missing persons and to act as therapists to calm down traumatized persons. All use of police animals, (with lots of crime, hard pavement, and little to no veterinary care for horses,) is outdated and should be abolished, unless the animals are used only as search and rescue, and/or therapy animals (with horses living at a farm). All the horses and dogs currently being used should be retired as companions to their handlers or retired to sanctuaries.
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Petition created on August 31, 2023