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H&H Medical Acquires Right to Produce SWAT-T Tourniquets

H&H Medical Corporation, a leading provider of emergency trauma products, has acquired the right to produce the SWAT-T elastic tourniquet from TEMS Solutions, LLC. The addition of this product will expand H&H Medical’s line of “Stop The Bleed” products available to military and civilian customers worldwide.

September 13, 2017

Illinois State Trooper Recovering After Being Shot, Beaten at Traffic Stop

Officials say ISP Trooper Dakotah Chapman-Green stopped the suspect just before 11 p.m. on Oct. 24 and the suspect got out of the car and fired at least 10 gunshots at the trooper hitting him multiple times. Officials say he was wounded in both legs.

November 1, 2023

Sill image from in-vehicle video shows Cristobal Santana opening fire on Illinois State Police Trooper Dakotah Chapman-Green, police say.

Missouri Officer Uses Tourniquet to Save Child Wounded in Drive-By

Police responded to the scene and found the child shot twice, once in the arm and once in the stomach.

February 25, 2020

Video: Ohio Officers Honored for Saving Lives With Tourniquets

Golf Manor, OH, police Lt. Michael Forrest and Cincinnati Police Officers Luke Wylie and Alexander Saulsbury were all honored Thursday for saving lives using tourniquets.

August 3, 2018

Forrest said he relied on his military training. 'Act. Move. Do something,' he said. (Photo: WCPO screenshot)

Florida Officers Seriously Injured in Pursuit Crash

According to the Haines City Police Department, Officers Jose Ramirez and Gedrick Vargas were conducting a traffic stop Saturday around 5:20 p.m. when 19-year-old Robert Lee Smith III pointed a rifle at the officers and fled the scene in a black Toyota.

August 29, 2022

Troopers Train for Active Shooters, Some Teach Civilians to Survive

“Now our troopers will be able to go out and train at schools, churches, and other businesses to let civilians know the best way to respond to an active shooter before law enforcement arrives on scene,” the highway patrol states in a social media post.

October 10, 2022

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Hitt joins state troopers during active shooter response training that was mandated by his executive order in June. All troopers will complete the course by the end of the year.

Off-duty Florida Officer Saves Woman from Bleeding Out

Recognizing how serious the cut to the artery was, Off-duty Fort Lauderdale police officer Nick Rollins applied a tourniquet to Jenon Wehby's arm to help stop the bleeding. More Here.

September 18, 2014

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Video: Off-duty Florida Officer Saves Woman from Bleeding Out

Off-duty Fort Lauderdale police officer Nick Rollins spotted the bleeding woman, who had fallen and slashed an artery in her wrist, and quickly applied a tourniquet to staunch the blood.

September 18, 2014

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Biolife Bleeding Control Powder

September 30, 2003

Click It or Die Bleeding

While vehicle crashes attributed to just 26 percent of all law enforcement deaths between the years 1980 and 1982, they comprised 54 percent of officer deaths between 2005 and 2007. Fatalities incident to foot or motorcycle patrol remained largely unchanged, yet deaths in patrol cars spiked.

August 25, 2010

To Stop, or Not to Stop, That is the Question

The cop is the decision maker. Not Jesse Jackson. Not Al Sharpton. Not even the Supreme Court. All that stuff can be argued about later, and might well be.

August 27, 2013

Photo by Kelly Bracken.

Picking Your Stops (and Keeping Them Stopped)

Some cops are in such a rush to get a car stopped that they'll let the driver they're attempting to detain dictate where the traffic stop will take place. Worse, they'll allow suspects to choreograph what happens once the cars have stopped.

October 9, 2008

The Rest Stop

I'd like to take a minute to ponder one of the issues that remains an unspoken truth about our natures and at the same time can dominate our attention with great urgency. That is the need for the human body to process waste.

January 12, 2012

Illustration: Sequoia Blankenship

Responding to the Active Shooter

Nearly two decades after Columbine there shouldn't be any question as to what we as law enforcement should do in an active shooter situation. We have to respond as safely as possible, grab what we have with us, and stop the killing.

November 9, 2018

Patrol officers don't have all the equipment and training of tactical units, but they can learn from the tactics, including room clearing from the threshold.

Stopping the Flow

Combined Agencies for Narcotics Enforcement (CANE) was started in September 1987 as a vehicle to target mid- and upper-level narcotics dealers working in and around Montgomery County, Ohio.

March 31, 2002

Stop The Falling

If companies can predict consumer behavior with considerable accuracy, is it outside the realm of possibility that the same could be done for criminal behavior?

June 18, 2018

Jon Adler, president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association Foundation.

Stopping the Cycle of Domestic Violence

Law enforcement agencies are making strides in providing domestic violence victims with assistance and aiding in prosecutions by changing the ways they handle these cases, initially and throughout the criminal justice process.

December 31, 2014

Photo courtesy of Salem (Ore.) PD

(Video) The Dangers of Traffic Stops

LAPD Captain Greg Meyer (ret.) discusses some of the dangers to police officers present during traffic stops, and some of the tactics he teaches officers to help mitigate those dangers.

April 11, 2019

LAPD Captain Greg Meyer (ret.) discusses with POLICE Contributing Web Editor Doug Wyllie some of the dangers to police officers present during traffic stops and tactics to mitigate them.

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