LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The chair of Nevada’s Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission said the agency may examine whether stronger oversight is needed after a Henderson police officer shot and killed a family’s dog, and the department later acknowledged it had not consistently tracked a state-mandated training requirement.
“We will get to the bottom of this,” Oliver Miller, chair of the Nevada Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, known as POST, said.
POST sets minimum hiring and training standards for peace officers across the state. However, the state agency does not track compliance with the legislatively mandated requirement that officers who may encounter dogs receive training on how to handle those situations…