SWAT medics in this day and age are no longer an option. But how you select your SWAT medics is important.

For over thirty years, we did not have SWAT medics in our team. We relied on having an ambulance staged two to three blocks away during our operations.

We thought we had the necessary medical support until one night our luck ran out and one of our SWAT team members was badly injured.

The unit that was staged for us down the street did not have communications with us since we did not have SWAT medics, so they weren't prepared when the team brought the injured SWAT officer to the paramedics.

Since then, we have dedicated SWAT medics on our team. These are firefighter-medics detached from the fire department for a year on a rotational basis.

See what we look for in a SWAT medic candidate.

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