2007 Senate Bill 74: Mandate defibrillators in police vehicles

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Introduced by Sen. Gilda Jacobs (D) on January 25, 2007, to mandate that police vehicles carry automatic external defibrillators.
- Referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 25, 2007.

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1) to: informed ems. by Anonymous Citizen on February 12, 2007
do you wait till the officers call you to respond to an accident, or domestic disturbance?

do you wait till the officer is down before you start to roll to a possible violent call?

do you wait till the officer calls to roll on a "check on an elderly" call?

YOU are the one wasting precious seconds by NOT BEING WHERE YOU ARE NEEDED.

yes, there will be plenty of times you MAY NOT be needed, but that ONE TIME you are will make up for those.

every city and township should have at least THREE ambulances for every FOUR police cars. any less, and we are not properly protected.
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2) as a cop in by crazycajun on February 12, 2007
a city that HAD THEM in every police vehicle,i can tell you that I'd certainly rather them be in every ambulance.

and as for the ambulance not being as close as you think, if it isn't, it should be. every violence call, including domestic violence, had an ambulance dispatched. every accident had an ambulance dispatched, as well as the fire department. every search had an ambulance dispatched. every stand-off had one too. in fact, on ANY call, all you had to do is ask. they had the same "response time" rules as we did. that is, within two minutes to a scene.

it's a bad feeling when you are administering aid to some fallen citizen when the shooting starts. no one is saying NOT TO HAVE THEM. let's just put them where they belong, on the ambulance.

by the way, let's step up the use of the ambulance, don't wait till you find out you need an ambulance to CALL one. If the officers here do that, a few less people may die. that's only common sense, which seems to be severely lacking here for some reason.
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3) Informed EMS provider by Anonymous Citizen on February 12, 2007
The ambulance is not as close as you may think. Automatic External Defibrillators work best if used within 4 - 6 minutes of your cardiac arrest. Good luck, cheapskate. Hopefully it's you and not your wife or child.
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