SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 23 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Agents of the Environment Group (Gruma) of the General Corps of the Canary Islands Police (CGPC) have carried out, in the course of this year, 38 inspections for alleged animal abuse and, as a result, 56 animals have been intervened and four crimes have been investigated .
This is clear from the report prepared, dated June 20, by the Internal Security and Administrative Police Operational Unit (UOSIPA) of the aforementioned body.
The municipalities where these interventions have been carried out have been Güímar (seven actions), La Matanza de Acentejo (five), San Miguel de Abona (five), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (four), La Laguna (four), Arico ( three), El Sauzal (two), Candelaria (two), Tacoronte (one), Granadilla de Abona (one), Fasnia (one), Arona (one), La Victoria de Acentejo (one) and San Juan de la Rambla ( a).
In January, for example, an investigation took place against a person in the municipality of Arico for an alleged crime of animal abuse, following the appearance of the corpse of a canine specimen, in a state of decomposition, at the mouth of the Bonito ravine.
Another action that should be mentioned is the one carried out in the month of March in the municipality of La Matanza de Acentejo, in which it is proposed to sanction the owner of seven dogs due to the deplorable hygienic-sanitary conditions in which he kept the animals.
Also in March, together with members of Social Services and a veterinarian, all of them attached to the La Laguna City Council, an inspection is carried out at a house in this municipal area, in which there are more than seventy canine specimens and several birds -chickens and ducks-, all of them owned by a single person and in poor hygienic-sanitary conditions that had caused diseases in several of the dogs, for which one of them had to be transferred, urgently, to an association for its treatment vet.
In the month of April, two investigations were carried out that resulted in two possible crimes of animal abuse. The first of them, on the 13th, in San Miguel de Bona, was the result of the terrible hygienic-sanitary conditions in which several canine specimens were found.
The second, on the 27th, in the municipalities of Arona and San Miguel de Abona, where ten people related to an alleged crime of animal abuse are being investigated. In this intervention, nineteen dogs and one pony were withdrawn, due to the injuries they presented and the highly unhealthy conditions, from the hygienic-sanitary point of view, in which they were found.
During the month of May, three people are being investigated as perpetrators of an alleged crime of animal abuse, due to the hygienic-sanitary conditions and physical injuries suffered by twelve dogs, a pony, a horse, two donkeys, three turtles and sixteen goats. and cattle.
The investigation begins as a result of a complaint filed at the General Corps of the Canary Islands Police for serious injuries suffered by a canine on its right front leg, which ended up causing a serious deformity that prevents it from walking normally. Immediately afterwards, agents belonging to the Internal Security and Administrative Police Operative Unit (UOSIPA) inspect the location where said animal was found, resulting in the discovery of more animals with injuries and in deplorable hygienic-sanitary conditions.
