A dog at Hastings Pound. Photo / File
Controversial Napier Pound official Alex Pollock resigned last Friday.
Mr Pollock, who was team leader at the Napier Pound and prior to that at the Hastings Pound when animal welfare allegations were made by animal welfare group Watchdog!, said he was not willing to comment, for personal reasons.
Earlier this
year MPI released a report to Hawke's Bay Today under the Official Information Act which found major failures at the Napier pound while Mr Pollock was team leader.
These included a lack of standard operating procedures, a lack of evidence of training, a lack of documentation, poor ability to control temperature in the facility and a poor ability to prevent contagious disease.
While the overall management, supervision and operation of the facility might be compliant with MPI codes of welfare, the report said it was "a significant failure" that the situation could not be verified through documentation.
