Senator of the state of new York requires a more severe punishment for causing harm to police animals.
Senator from the Republican party Katherine Yang County Olean in Cattaraugus plans to spend Monday at the Albany conference on the adoption of a new bill that proposes to criminalize conduct expressed in the intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm to police service dogs or horses. We offer young measures have also tightened the punishment for the offence of murder of a police service dog or horse by applying it to the serious crimes category D.
The bill has already received the informal name — «Mitchell’s law» in honor of the official German shepherd police Department Jamestown, who was seriously injured during the arrest of a suspect in the murder in November last year.
The bill passed through the Senate Committee and was included in the agenda.
