We were paged to a vehicle accident it said the patient walked to a near by house for help.
We arrived to find what looked like knife wounds to the chest. The LEOs went to the accident site insted of the house. They radio to us "What do you have, We have a truck with no damage and a bloody knife in the seat. We can't leave to come there because it looks like a crime scene."
The patient's got wild eyed but his collapsed lung kept him in check. (Self inflicted knife wounds)
I have been to a "injured knee" call. Where upon arrival they were on the porch shooting at each other.
We get these kind of things a few times about every year. Most all the pages central calls for LEOs but most of the time they don't come for run of the mill medical runs.
What can we do to help stop this? (I doubt it can be stopped)
Is there somewhere we can get some kind of training? (I was thinking to see if the sheriffs dept. could help us with training).
How do other departments handle these?
I would like to have a code to give each other on are department. So we know we are walking in on a possible violent scene. We don't use 10 codes so I was thinking something like "code V". I hate to come out and say violent scene with them a few feet away. It may be a trigger to a fight or something worse.
Is this a bad idea?
Another thing dispatch will come on and say "Law enforcement is 20 mintutes out". Not good this lets them know they have plenty of time for a chance to run. Not that we would try to stop them, But how would they know that. It could be shoot the guys between them and the door and run for it?
Out of a hundred and twenty five runs a year I would say five of them are something like these. I would think big city guys would deal with this stuff almost daily.
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