Spike is a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois from Holland, born on May 12th of 2004. Spike joined the Mesa Police K-9 unit on August 3rd of 2007. Spike is trained in patrol functions such as building searches, area searches, finding missing persons, and assisting Swat with tactical deployments.

Spike certified PH-1, KNPV in Holland in 2007 before coming to Arizona. Spike is currently working the streets with his handler John LaFontaine, who has been on the unit for 7 years. K-9 Spike is taking over the job that K-9 Ully and K-9 Leon had performed for the past 7 years with Officer LaFontaine.

Spike is an 80-pound solid black Belgian Malinois that loves attention and playing in his handlers pool.

Spike located his first felony suspect on 09-05-2007 after the suspect fled into the desert and hid from police, two days before being certified for patrol. Spike has since located a suspect in a shed for patrol officers and helped locate stolen property from a commercial burglary, all in the first two weeks of being certified for patrol duty.

Spike was purchased with monies donated by very generous citizens and M&I Bank after K-9 Leon was killed in the line of duty. The funds donated will be used to purchase dogs and equipment for the K-9 Unit and also to maintain the training range.