Wish them a ton of fun and safe adventures as they proudly serve our communities,' the city's K9 Unit wrote on Instagram at the time.īingo, thank you for your service. It is also especially sad because, though thoroughly trained, these officers of course do not volunteer for nor understand the dangers of their job. Responses to a tweet about the incident posted by Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw just nine hours ago at the time of publication are already well into the hundreds, with people saying it takes a particular brand of cruelty to shoot and kill an animal.
I have worked with the K9 units in Peel /Toronto and the connection between the two officers is very real. The public has been widely sharing the news and offering an outpouring of condolences to authorities, especially to the police dog's human partner, with which he had a particularly special bond.
While responding to reports of gunshots in Etobicoke on Tuesday night, a member of the force was shot and killed while looking for a suspect on foot - not a human member, though, but a K9 officer named Bingo. Toronto police are grieving a very rare type of officer-involved shooting this week that residents are finding especially heinous.
