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Police dog dies after officer leaves it in hot car for more than SIX hours, cop who left dog not charged

Although David Hurt escaped criminal charges, he was taken off the bomb squad and also banned from working with animals ever again.

A police dog handler has been banned from working with animals after he left his canine in his patrol car which resulted in the animal dying due to a heat stroke. 

The master police officer David Hurt had left the bomb-sniffing labrador-retriever mix named Turbo in his vehicle for a period of around 6 hours. Hurt did not check on Turbo once in those 6 hours despite the fact that the temperature was a burning 94F.