A Southern Tier State Senator has proposed a law that would bring harsher penalties to anyone involved in harming police dogs.
Republican Senator Catharine Young of Olean says he bill would create a new felony offense for intentionally causing serious physical injury to a police dog or a police work horse.
The bill would increase the penalty to make the offense a Class "D" felony. The bill is being named Mitchell's Law for a Jamestown Police Department German Shepard that suffered life-threatening injuries while apprehending a suspect in a local murder case last fall.