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A police officer with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary listened to testimony Monday afternoon from a man whom he arrested nearly six years ago in a chaotic scene that ended with one person pepper-sprayed, a smashed patio door, and two men in handcuffs. 

Helen Conway Ottenheimer, a Progressive Conservative MHA, is denouncing the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary's lack of communication about the force's therapy dog program.

Internal emails and documents obtained by CBC News through access to information show that dozens of community outreach or victim services requests were denied over a recent six-month period.