That is an assumption and not a fact.
For all you know, the dispatcher could have gotten it wrong, or it was garbled during radio transmission. I was recently listening to the Baltimore police scanner, and I'm surprised that this doesn't happen more often. Over and over I heard requests to 'repeat information'. Even if you are correct, there is no evidence in the article stating that. The police chief says they went to the wrong address. He doesn't state how that happened.
The article states:
A police officer investigating a report of a home burglary mistakenly went to the wrong address and ended up killing a family's dog.
In order to have this discussion we have to assume that the article means what it says. Otherwise we may as well assume none of it is facts and simply discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Yes, it's obvious that if he was given incorrect information then the responsibility lies elsewhere. But we are not a board of inquiry, we are people discussing what the article says. And it says he made a mistake.