Individual First Aid Kits for BPD

I am Christopher Heavren, an Eagle Scout candidate from Troop 85 in Wethersfield, Connecticut.  In order to fulfill the Eagle Scout requirements, I must plan, develop and implement a service project that provides a significant benefit to the community around me.  I am working with the Berlin, Connecticut Police Department to design, assemble and distribute individual first aid kits (IFAK) to the forty sworn officers of the department.  These kits will be carried with the officer and allow them immediate access to life-saving medical equipment in traumatic situations.

 Individual first aid kits, in military use, have reduced the death rate from bleeding significantly.  In July 2015, Lafayette Louisiana Police Chief Jim Craft credited the use of individual first aid kits in the saving of multiple lives after a shooting in a movie theater. The Hartford Consensus, a Joint Committee formed to create a National Policy to Enhance Survivability from Intentional Mass Casualty and Active Shooter Events, recommends that police officers be issued the necessary equipment to immediately to stop severe bleeding.

The forty kits will contain:

                Windlass Tourniquet

                Combat Gauze

                Compression Dressings

                Petrolatum Dressings

                Nitrile Gloves

                Trauma Shears

 The cost to complete this project is anticipated to exceed five thousand dollars.

Please consider helping the Berlin Police Department obtain this life-saving equipment.  I believe that the deployment of this equipment will save lives in a similar fashion as the deployment of AEDs and naloxone.