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Family dog tied to tree, shot
TWO policemen have not been prosecuted for shooting a dog after tying it to a tree.
An inquiry recommended the men be summonsed under the Animal Welfare Act.
But police last night said the officers had been subjected only to "internal disciplinary action". The first officer fired at the family pet from close range but missed.
A shot from the second officer passed through the dog's neck - depriving it of the ability to bark - and cut the rope.
The animal ran home to its master with blood pumping out of the entry and exit bullet wounds.
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The West Australian - Perth,We
31 July 2007
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Inquiry will affect police mor
A corruption investigation will affect the morale of WA police officers but is needed, WA Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan says.
The Corruption and Crime Commission today began public hearings into the wrongful conviction of Andrew Mallard in November 1995 for the murder of Pamela Lawrence in her Mosman Park jewellery store in 1994.
Mr Mallard's conviction was quashed in 2006 following years of appeals.
His name was cleared later last year when a police cold case review found there was sufficient evidence to implicate another man, convicted killer Simon Rochford.
Rochford had been convicted of killing his girlfriend Brigitta Dickens, seven weeks before Ms Lawrence's death.
Mr O'Callaghan, who referred the matter to the CCC, said it was an important process but conceded it would affect morale.
"I think it's important in getting justice for Andrew Mallard and justice for the officers which have been accused," Mr O'Callaghan said.
"It's going to take some months to get through this so it's very early days.
"I don't want to speculate day in, day out. We need to wait, let the inquiry do it's work and, at the end of that, make some determinations.
"I'm sure it will have an effect on the morale of the officers ... but my officers are very professional people and they will get on with their business."
In his opening address, counsel assisting the commission Jeremy Gormly SC told the inquiry the weapon Rochford used to kill Ms Dickens, a dumbbell weight clasp attached to a wooden rod, was probably the same as that used to kill Ms Lawrence.
Palm and finger prints found at Ms Lawrence's Flora Metallica jewellery store in 1994 were matched to Rochford in 2006, leading to the "cascade of events" that eventually led to police clearing Mr Mallard and naming Rochford as their prime suspect.
Rochford committed suicide in May 2006, a day after police told him they thought he had killed Ms Lawrence.
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