Brian Willis

Law enforcement officers are not strangers to trauma. They respond to thousands of calls involving injuries resulting from traffic accidents, shootings and stabbings. A significant number of these incidents result in someone being seriously injured. All too often, the injured parties are fellow law enforcement officers. According to the FBI uniform crime reporting statistics in the 10-year period from 1995 to 2004 there were 594 officers killed in the line of duty in the United States and another 717 officers died in what were classified as accidents. In that same 10-year period, 566,523 officers were assaulted, with approximately 30% of those officers being injured in the assaults. Naturally, law-enforcement officers are the first responders in the majority of these cases. Although agencies normally provide basic first aid training, many officers wish there was more they could do to help.

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