Jessamine Co. Sheriff's Office gets new K9

live from lexington our home your news this is fox 56 news at 10 30. the jessamine county sheriff's office swore in its newest crime fighter this afternoon tyler molito met the department's newest furry officer and his handler and joins us now in studio with more tyler that is right marvin and amani meet the newest member of the jessamine county sheriff's office k-9 officer batman he and his handler aaron hayden came to jessamine county after becoming partners one year ago the process for the two being paired up with something hayden says happened by chance hi baby hello yeah i know it all right i actually uh looked into finding him another canine handler actually uh had him come up um more or less uh more or less as a gift and asked me if i wanted to to take on another dog and of course we met and the rest is history the relationship between a k-9 officer and its handler is something jessamine county deputy aaron hayden says is extremely important especially if you're a new handler just so you have that that match between the dog and the handler because everything you do up here on this end usually ends up going down to the other end of the dog so you know if you're having a bad day they feel it and that relationship carries over to outside the work day all of the worst things that i've been through he's been right there with me and outside of that you know they're they're family members right he comes home with me every single day he's around all my kids my kids love them everyone in the community you know they're almost they're a part of the community that they're with and they're more than just a dog according to hayden as both a patrol dog and a narcotics dog batman is the ultimate utility pup out in the field he kind of does a mix of everything and for us it's a huge uh forced multiplier on the street because you know he can see things that we don't and smell things that we don't and it's just a it's a huge plus for us the opportunity to serve jessamine county has both hayden and batman excited for what's to come so it's really exciting time for us i know him especially just because we're starting so many new adventures here now when i ask how he feels about being the robin in his relationship with batman deputy hayden says he's all about it and that batman is one of the smartest dogs he's ever worked with for fox 56 news i'm tyler molito tyler thank you

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Published: Fri Sep 09 2022