I came across this great article on how a Police Officer should handle a shooting scene if he is the first to get there. Great stuff. Paramedics and Firefighters should read this so they can be aware of what the Police need to do. A good awareness of other emergency responders jobs can go along way.
Preliminary investigation and intelligence-gathering Paul Laska 2008 Jul 7 It's a sad fact of police life that investigators and technical specialists are often not available for response to "routine" or "mundane" incidents. Shrinking budgets, reallocations of resources, and growing rates of more serious offenses far too often relegate shootings without injuries to, at best, follow-up investigations, if any investigation at all. However, all is not lost; the patrol officer, armed with the knowledge of shooting reconstruction, can often piece together enough facts to allow follow-up from the patrol level, possibly taking a shooter off the street and making the beat a safer place for all. Read more...
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