{"id":361755,"date":"2010-02-25T08:52:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T13:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/cop-suspended-for-putting-cat-out-in-cold"},"modified":"2010-02-25T08:52:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T13:52:48","slug":"cop-suspended-for-putting-cat-out-in-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361755","title":{"rendered":"Cop suspended for putting cat out in cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

ELGIN, Ill. (STMW) — <\/strong>Police officials said Wednesday that policies already had been in place but simply were not followed when a northwest suburban Elgin police officer released a cat into the cold in December after it was brought into the station by a family seeking help for the animal.<\/p>\n

Elgin police Lt. <\/span>Bill Wolf said Sgt. John Demmin, the officer involved in the incident, had been suspended for one day without pay after a disciplinary inquiry found him at fault.<\/p>\n\n

“We already had policies in place that we think would dictate how an officer would handle that,” Wolf said. “And obviously there was some indication that it was not handled properly.”<\/p>\n\n\n

The incident occurred Dec. 8, 2009. when Elgin residents Wilmarie Cancel and her husband, Edmund Rosado, brought a cat in a cage to the police station after finding it on the front steps of their apartment building.<\/p>\n\n

It was at the station, the couple claimed, that an officer threatened to arrest them for abandoning an animal, then suggested they release the cat in a rural area — or just outside the police station.<\/p>\n\n\n

When the couple refused, Demmin reportedly opened the cage on the front steps of the police station and let the cat run off into the snow.<\/p>\n\n

The cat was found by officers a day later and taken to Golf Rose Animal Hospital in Schaumburg, where it was adopted within a week amid interest by more than 15 people.<\/p>\n\n\n

Wolf said officers are regularly trained in department policies and that those will continue to be reviewed to avoid a similar incident in the future.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n

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