THE two stun guns, which City Hall’s administration said were in transit for many months, are now with the City Constabulary Department and will be in use soon.

Town Clerk Royston King made the disclosure at Monday’s statutory meeting at City Hall.

King had been pressed on several occasions in the past about the acquisition of the guns in view of the inhumane manner in which animals are being slaughtered at the municipal abattoir.

Mayor Patricia Chase-Green had called for the matter to be dealt with urgently as she described the manner in which the animals being are slaughtered as “cruel and heartless.” She had even threatened disciplinary action against officers who are culpable.

The Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) had subsequently said that it was not satisfied with the manner in which the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is slaughtering animals. The mayor had said that should the GSPCA have reason to go out and protest this issue, those who are guilty will be disciplined.

By the end of July 2017, it was the mayor who had remarked that the stun gun and ammunition should have been in place at the municipal abattoir, failing which disciplinary action would have been taken.

The stun gun is used to render animals immobile or unconscious prior to slaughtering them at the abattoir, so that they do not feel as much pain.