life to help train and protect police and military dogs. jimmy helps police department k-9 units around the country. often posing as a bad guy. a dei could to help train the dogs and get them used to wearing these vests. in some situations, police dogs are sent in when it s too risky for a police officer. the dogs find the suspect and grab on to him. the police officer s valuable time to apprehend them. volunteering as a dei could is not glamourous work. jimmy spends a lot of his time getting bitten by dogs over and over again. this dog is wearing a custom made bullet proof vest that spike s k-9 fund got for him. it s lightweight so it doesn t slow him down, but it will protect him. it can save his life as well as the life of his human handler.
these vests aren t cheap. they cost about $2,500 a piece. all this training helps the dogs and the police handlers get better. and while the dogs look scary they can save a suspect s life stopping him before he gets shot or tasers. the better trained the dogs are the safer everybody is. it s just like the military, train, train, train and your odds of success go up. jimmy runds this foundation along with his director of operations emily. currently we help dogs in 26 states and i would like the whole map to be lit up with dogs that we ve helped. their office is jimmy s kitchen table and to keep overhead low jimmy says more than 80% of the money donated goes to vests and medical expenses which sometimes aren t covered by local police department. he s gotten vests for at least 288 police dogs so far. by the end of the year he d like
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this group in a plane with me are mostly volunteers. we re all here for a fund-raiser for jimmy hatch s charity, spike s canine fund, which raises money to help protect the lives of police dogs buying them custom made bullet proof police vests. she s fast. she s an athlete. reporter: i first met jimmy two years ago when i interviewed him for a story. he served in the navy for 26 years. most of it with multiple tours in afghanistan, iraq, elsewhere. jimmy doesn t like to make a big deal of it, but he s seen a lot of combat in his life and he s done some remarkable things to help protect us. on his last mission in afghanistan in 2009, jimmy was critically wouldn tnded shot in leg by searching for army private bo berghdal.
volunteering as a decoy is not glamorous work. jimmy spends a lot of his time getting bitten by dogs over and over again. this dog is wearing a custom-made bulletproof vest that spike s k-9 fund got for him. it s lightweight so it doesn t slow the dog down but will protect him. these vests aren t cheap. they cost about $2,500 apiece. all this training helps the dogs and their police handlers get better. though the dogs look scary, they can actually save a suspect s life, stopping him before he gets shot or tasered. the better trained the dogs are, the safer everyone is. training is how just like when i was in the militait s the same thing. you train, train, train, train, train, and your odds of success go up. spike s k-9 fund is a small