The Southern Pines Police Department is asking the public to report any unattended animals in a vehicles in this dangerous heat we are currently having.

In a post on social media, the department announced that they will dispatch an officer who will “assess the situation and take appropriate action.”

The police can be reached at 910-692-7031, or if it’s an immediate situation, please call 911.

The  police department listed the following law:

§ 14-363.3. Confinement of animals in motor vehicles

(a) In order to protect the health and safety of an animal, any animal control officer, animal cruelty investigator appointed under G.S. 19A-45, law enforcement officer, firefighter, or rescue squad worker, who has probable cause to believe that an animal is confined in a motor vehicle under conditions that are likely to cause suffering, injury, or death to the animal due to heat, cold, lack of adequate ventilation, or under other endangering conditions, may enter the motor vehicle by any reasonable means under the circumstances after making a reasonable effort to locate the owner or other person responsible for the animal.

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