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Article: Essex police face horse cruelty claim
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 1998
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ESSEX POLICE, rocked last week by the conviction of three officers
for brutality to police dogs, is facing a further inquiry involving
cruelty to horses.
The head of Essex's mounted police section has been suspended
following allegations that he deliberately hurt a police horse that
he rode on duty.
Sgt Paul Hemmings, who was based with the force's mounted unit at
Southend, is being investigated by the same disciplinary section that
looked into the killing of Acer, the police dog who died in November
last year after being hung over a fence and kicked.
Sgt Hemmings was reported by a fellow mounted officer for alleged
cruelty to a working horse, a heavyweight hunter cross standing at
more than ...