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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: William Hull, Lieutenant
DATE: 06/11/2020
SUBJECT:
A resolution to accept the quote from North American Rescue, 35 Tedwall Court, Greer, SC 29650 to purchase 135 Patrol Vehicle Trauma Kit w/ Combat Gauze for the Aurora Police Department, recommended to the Public Health, Safety and Transportation Committee on 06/23/2020.
PURPOSE:
To secure 135 Patrol Vehicle Trauma Kits w/ Combat Gauze for the Aurora Police Department. These Trauma Kits would be placed in all patrol vehicles and some specialized vehicles in the fleet. These kits would be easily accessible by the officers responding to incidents involving victims of severe trauma; to include gunshot victims. These kits are intended to treat citizens as well as Aurora Police Officers who have been injured or shot and need immediate lifesaving first aid.
BACKGROUND:
Police officers have responded to many types of incidents where there are victims who have suffered severe types of trauma; leaving the victim bleeding and in need of immediate blood stopping first aid. In most cases the police officer arrives before fire department paramedics and while paramedics arrive in a very timely manner (within seconds to a minute or two of police) those seconds or minutes may mean the difference between life and death.
Unfortunately on February 15, 2019 Aurora experienced a mass workplace shooting at the Henry Pratt building on the city's near west side. During this incident six Henry Pratt Employees were shot, five of them fatally. As Aurora Police Officers arrived they were immediately shot at with five officers being shot; fortunately none were killed.
While officers do carry some first aid equipment (to include a tourniquet) once used, the officer has nothing left should they need additional blood stopping first aid equipment. With one of these kits in all patrol vehicles; officers would have access to multiple kits should they encounter multiple victims.
DISCUSSION:
The Patrol ...
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