E-10-B｜Police Refusal of Responsibility for Dog Seizure and Boarding Costs

Formal refusal by Copenhagen Police Legal Department to assume responsibility for the dog seizure and boarding costs incurred during the apprehension and psychiatric admission on 20 June 2023.
This document is important not only because of the cost dispute, but because it formally confirms key parts of the police operation itself.

I. Document Summary

This document is an official decision issued by Københavns Politi · Juridisk afdeling (Copenhagen Police Legal Department) on 07 February 2024, under case number 2023-045274. The decision refuses to assume responsibility for the costs incurred after Beizi Li’s dog was taken away and placed in boarding during the police operation on 20 June 2023, when she was transported to Psykiatrisk Center Amager.

On the surface, this appears to be a dispute over dog boarding costs. In reality, however, the document is much more important, because it also formally confirms that on 20 June 2023 the police did in fact go to Beizi Li’s residence, arrest her, and assist the Amager psychiatric system in carrying out the admission. The police further confirm that they reviewed at least part of the on-site audio recordings submitted by Beizi Li.

Procedural Delay and Fragmentation of the Event

This matter was not first raised in February 2024. In fact, Beizi Li had already filed a formal complaint on 25 June 2023 regarding the police entry into her residence, the arrest, and the related handling of events on 20 June 2023.

However, Copenhagen Police did not issue one unified and timely response to the full event. Instead, they split the same incident into multiple case numbers and multiple stages of review, issuing separate responses months later to different parts of the same event.

This method of handling creates a clear procedural burden: one violent and coercive event is administratively fragmented, forcing the victim to repeatedly pursue the same factual chain under different numbers and at different times. This increases difficulty of understanding, reduces visibility of overall responsibility, and prolongs the burden of complaint.

II. Basic Information

III. Facts Formally Confirmed by the Police in This Document

1. At approximately 11:30 on 20 June 2023, the police dispatched a patrol to Beizi Li’s residence at Stubmøllevej 7, 3, for the purpose of arresting her and assisting Amager psychiatric services with the admission.
2. The police admit that upon arrival they found a dog in the home, and they admit that the dog was taken away and placed in a boarding facility as part of the same arrest and admission operation.
3. The police admit that they reviewed at least one of the on-site audio recordings previously submitted by Beizi Li.
4. The police confirm that the dog was kept in boarding from 20 June 2023 until 16 August 2023.

IV. Dog Seizure and Boarding Costs

V. Police Reasons for Rejecting the Complaint and Compensation Claim

The conclusion of the Copenhagen Police Legal Department is: they do not criticize the police decision to send the dog to boarding, and they refuse to assume compensation liability.

Their main reasons include:

• Beizi Li was to be admitted to psychiatric hospitalization, and the time of discharge was unknown;
• the dog could not be left alone in the home;
• they claimed that neither Beizi Li nor the police were able to find another person to care for the dog;
• they claimed that she “understood and accepted” that the dog would be sent to boarding;
• they concluded that the police committed no error or negligence, and therefore bore no liability for damages.

VI. Key Point of Dispute

The most important issue in this document is not simply whether the police agreed to pay the dog boarding costs. More importantly, the police use this written decision to construct a narrative: that the dog was taken away in a manner that was “reasonable, necessary, and accepted by you.”

However, this account is fundamentally disputed. The surrounding situation was not one of equality, calm deliberation, or free daily choice. It was a setting in which the police entered the residence, arrested Beizi Li, and forcibly transported her for psychiatric admission. Under such a highly coercive situation, any claimed “consent” cannot automatically be treated as genuine free, informed, and autonomous consent.

Therefore, this document is not only about the arrangement of a dog. It reveals how a state action, while depriving a mother of her liberty, also severed her emotional bond with her pet and then attempted to shift the resulting financial burden back onto the controlled person herself.

VII. Evidentiary Significance of the Document

1. It formally confirms that on 20 June 2023 the police went to Beizi Li’s residence for the purpose of “arresting her and assisting psychiatric admission.”
2. It confirms that the seizure of the dog was not an isolated event, but part of the same forced admission operation.
3. It confirms that the police actually received and reviewed the on-site audio recordings provided by Beizi Li.
4. It exposes how the police used the logic that “no actual payment has yet been made, therefore no loss exists” in order to deny economic compensation responsibility.
5. It provides written evidence for the later chain of emotional deprivation: while subjecting Beizi Li to forced psychiatric control, the police also kept her pet away for an extended period and shifted the cost back onto her.

VIII. Leads to the Next Key Document

This decision also explicitly states that on 25 June 2023, Beizi Li complained about the police “entering her residence” on 20 June 2023 in order to transport her to Amager psychiatric services, and that according to the Legal Department, that issue had already been addressed in another decision dated 10 November 2023.

This means that there is still another, more direct and more important police decision that needs to be retrieved and archived, concerning how the police entered the residence, whether forced entry occurred, and whether they possessed valid procedural authority.

IX. Document Download

X. Contact and Supplementary Materials

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