- Wednesday April 22nd, 2015 :: 10:25 a.m. EDT
Putnamville Troopers Receive a Potentially Lifesaving Device
Putnamville—On Tuesday, April 21, Indiana State Police Troopers and Detectives at the Putnamville Post received a small, potentially lifesaving device, which each officer will now carry. The device is a Combat Application Tourniquet.
All enforcement personnel working out of the Putnamville Post received a two-hour block of academic and practical instruction on the use of the tourniquet.
In recent history and on more than one occasion, ISP troopers were immediately engaged in lifesaving measures at various traumatic events around the state that required the use of a tourniquet to save the victims lives. During those times, Troopers improvised tourniquets from materials the trooper’s were carrying or from materials found at the scene. The improvised tourniquets were constructed and successfully applied by the troopers, victim’s survived their injuries and those trooper’s were awarded by the department for their lifesaving actions.
Acting upon the recent events involving tourniquets, the Indiana State Police felt the need to supply every officer with the ability to quickly apply and use a professionally made tourniquet. The CAT tourniquets allow one or two handed use and can be applied in 30 seconds or less to stop rapid blood loss from any extremity.
In the very near future, every ISP district around the state will have been instructed and supplied with the CATs (Combat Application Tourniquet).
The attached pictures are: Sergeant Jason Miller (left and holding a CAT) and Detective Deanna Jones (right) as they instruct the application and use of the CATs. The second picture: Left to Right is Master Trooper Chris Harcourt receiving an applied tourniquet by Master Trooper Chip McKee during the practical application portion of the training.
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Indiana State Police-Putnamville District 53-Putnamville, IN
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Greencastle, IN 46135
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Joe Watts
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