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Al least around here, police respond to all EMS calls that involve drugs or alcohol. And we "stage" for them. So if officer there to first responding they can provide ALS care if needed

100% agree. Especially when I'm on the ambulance, always feel safer when there's an officer present, for protection purposes, and legal (documentation) purposes.

He's one of the paramedic instructors at my school, I'll talk to him more about it when I see him next, but by the sound of it, the system works well.

I don't think that's how it works, I'm sure they take care of the threat before medical treatment, plus there are many other members of the team to continue. The SWAT medic doesn't carry any big bagsor anything, they have a small backpack and pockets on their vests, kind of like pararescue...

Yeah I wasn't too interested in the SWAT part... but how is that dangerous? Its just 1 member of the team who's normally trained in police/SWAT, but also a medic, to provide emergency care right away if needed. For the police medic units (we call them E-Units), they go where ever they're sent...

I wasn't expecting such a quick reply! Yeah the depts. that I was talking about are full time police, and do their normal police duties, but are also paramedics, and in the county one, you have to be a medic, they're armed and everything. A different police dept I live near had a SWAT medic...

In the county i live in, the sheriffs department has police paramedic units, (1 of only 2 depts in MI) it seems to work very well and I'm interested in working there in the future, I'm a paramedic student right now and they just recently started letting medic students ride along with them, so I...