Video: Police Service Given 350 Trauma Packs
At a press conference held today [June 25], Governor George Fergusson presented Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva with 350 trauma packs, each containing a number of items that promise to aid officers in the case of traumatic injury, such as a gunshot wound.
Commissioner DeSilva said, “I am pleased to accept the donation of 350 Trauma Packs on behalf of the Bermuda Police Service [BPS]. This represents a key objective of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police [ACCP] that was set at our AGM held in Bermuda last year.
“At that meeting, the Commissioners were moved by the powerful story of St. Croix Chief of Police Christopher Howell who survived multiple gunshot wounds in 2012, thanks to a trauma pack that he was carrying.”
“Research estimates that two out of three fatal shootings result from blood loss, not the gunshot injury itself. Under the banner “Operation Triage,” the ACCP undertook to provide all of its front line officers with this potential life-saving pack.
“The packs contain a tourniquet, pressure gauzes, and a chemical for blood clotting. It is recognised that tourniquets are not generally used by first aiders, and these packs will only be used by the police in extreme circumstances where it could mean the difference between life and death.”
Governor Fergusson officially presents the trauma packs to Commissioner DeSilva:
“Since police officers are amongst the first to arrive at most shootings, it makes sense that we provide them with an emergency solution to gunshot wounds.
“I am very grateful to Government House for its role in working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to have these packs provided to our officers, at no cost to the BPS. I’m glad we have them, but I hope we never have to use them.”
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Wouldn’t they actually Need to put themselves in danger to need a trauma pack, or maybe it has a pack of tums in the pack when excessive donuts are consumed
LOL I hope the police realize they will have to actually show up to the scene before the ambulance in order to use these kits. #Rareoccasions!
Good news! And the police have to check the scene before the ambulance can come… Shows how much you know
I dont like the way this smell at all.
Their thinking on tourniquets might be a little obsolete…These are “TRAUMA” packs…might – but very likely won’t cause a limb impairment with fast transport to a hospital…It is LIFE over LIMB…Tourniquets
save lives.
This is digressing slightly…
The Metropolitan police in parts of England are now handing out scratch cards with the scent of marijuana so that the general public can be come familiar with the scent in order to catch those who illegally grow it in the UK and, the knock on effect of other crimes related to marijuana growers, such as, money laundering, using underage youths to sell the drug, involvement in other more dangerous drugs, export and/or even human trafficking, prostitution and servitude.
Marijuana spurs a billion dollar industry of illicit drugs and other forms of criminal activities, yet, we are quite prepared to dismiss creational drug use as harmless. Provided that the creational user is prepared to buy it, and that makes you the VITAL LINK in the drug trade of collateral damage. There is no way that any government can know for certain that legally grown marijuana is not supporting other forms of criminal activities from its place origins.
Marijuana may be a harmless drug as creational use for some, but when youths are enlisted into its culture and trade incentivised by financial rewards that is perpetuated from the point of sale, then the question becomes not whether it’s harmless to smoke and whether it should be decriminalised based on that point, BUT whether the culture, sophistication and financial targeting of youths to join the wider world of the drug trade is the price worth paying in order that some may smoke a harmless spliff as a form of relaxation.
London, England
Thank you Mr. Fergusson and the ACCP. It is to be hoped that police officers never do need these packs but should something occur involving a police officer or a member of the public they may be life saving.
Trauma Management works. I’m proof of that.
Chief Chris Howell