TWO police dogs have died after being trapped in a locked car without the windows open during yesterday’s hot weather.
The car had to be broken into to free the Belgian Malanois and German Shepherd pup, at the Metropolitan Police Dog Training Unit in Layhams Road, Keston.
The dogs, which had collapsed, were taken to a vets where they subsequently died.
Temperatures yesterday soared to 29 degrees.
A Met Police spokesman said: “On Sunday June 26 at approximately 11am staff at an MPS building were alerted to two police dogs having been left in an unventilated private vehicle.
“Entry was forced to the vehicle and two MPS dogs, a working Belgian Malanois and a German Shepherd pup, were found in a state of collapse.
“Both were taken to an emergency vets where they subsequently died.”
An investigation has been launched by the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards and the Independent Police Complaints Commission has also been informed.
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