A Hawaiian police dog died in a hot car when its handler abandoned her animal partner “for an unacceptable period of time.”

Archer, a 6-year-old Belgian Malinois-German Shepherd mix, died in a police vehicle on last Thursday after his handler Sidra Brown forgot about the drug sniffing pup in the car, the Hawaii Police Department announced in a press release .

Archer, 6, died while trapped in a hot police cruiser on September 4. hawaiicounty_police/Instagram

Officer Sidra Brown was listed as Archer’s handler, according to the Hawaii Police Department website. hawaiicounty_police/Instagram

“Archer was not just a police dog, he was a partner, protector, and a member of our police family,” Interim Police Chief Reed Mahuna wrote in the release. “This was a preventable tragedy.”

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