ANOTHER RESPONSE TO A COMMENT

Anonymous said...

And what about all those new medical kits for the cruisers. A lot of good they will do sitting in a classroom at the Academy. Why? If anyone needs them, not much you can do about it, especially after we were trained with them . Why buy them in the first place if we can't have access to them. maybe eventually we can say "geez, we might have saved a life if they weren't locked up in the Academy"

February 9, 2016 at 7:30 PM

Anonymous said...

The lack of med kits being distributed back in october, rests on Deputy Chief Dustin Rendock. Plain and simple. He put a major speedbump up. Those kits are ready to be deployed, but Rendock has to flex what little command presence he has as the behind the desk Chief.

But hey, i dont mind driving a spare cruiser with no kit or tank in it. What a lawsuit it would be if someone dies due to med kits piled up at the academy. I bet they would be in the field after a nbc 30 news broadcast .....hmmmmmmm

February 9, 2016 at 8:34 PM

The two comments above were received Monday night. The comments provoked me to find out more. Apparently, the new medical kits were ordered to outfit Hartford Police cruisers with new medical bags . The bags also contain technology and equipment used by the US Military for lifesaving efforts, particularly to deal with shootings and severe trauma. The packets apparently use  technology that provides clotting agents to  gunshot wounds and definitely have proven beneficial in saving lives.

HPD personnel were trained in the use of the equipment , from what I am told by sources , in August. The lifesaving equipment has sat in a classroom at the Police Academy ever since, never being distributed to front line units in the field. I am unable to  understand what would motivate anyone to withhold such important equipment from being put into service as soon as it was available. Does the person playing games have a conscience?

Never being distributed to units in the field, until today that is. Once I began asking questions and trying to gather answers as to why lifesaving equipment was gathering dust at the Academy, things began to happen. This morning, all HPD Patrol units from the midnight shift were ordered to report to the Police Academy to be outfitted with their new medical equipment. From what I am told, all HPD line units are tonight fitted with new lifesaving equipment, including the clotting factor and specialized trauma bandages specially designed to deal with gunshot wounds.

Keep the comments coming in, they do make a difference. In this case possibly with lifesaving results.

And I also received a question about the oxygen tanks with the kits freezing

According to information on-line,the tank its self. it can feel frozen. but wont break when dropped. if you mean the oxygen itself. . . yes oxygen can freeze. all elements have a freezing point. Oxygen has a freezing point of -368.77 °F. I don't think the temperature is predicted to get  anywhere near that this weekend, but maybe one of the Deputy Chiefs knows better