RE: Aeromedical Prisoner Transport

["Jeff Brosius" <reno316@hotmail.com>]

While I understand the safety concerns, and I aplaud those who take steps to 
address these concerns, I offer this:

There are few things in this world that are totally useless...

1) Airspace above you.

2) Fuel in the fuel truck.

3) Runway behind you.

4) An unloaded firearm.

If you ask a law enforcement officer to unload his/her weapon, you might as 
well ask him/her to leave the weapon on the ground.  It's worthless 
otherwise.

Cops are trained to carry and handle firearms safely.  Allow them to do it.

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JRB

Jeff Brosius,
Paramedic, etc.
Atlanta, GA
www.prehospital-perspective.com
brosius@prehospital-perspective.com
"The hardest thing to learn in life is
which bridge to cross and which to burn."
-- David Russell




>as to the question of guns on board, you should also consider the 
>possibility that some COs may be authorized to carry other weapons that 
>could create problems in flight such as stunguns, batons and chemical 
>agents like Mace.
>
>that being said, i wouldn't want any of those onboard with an inmate unless 
>there were a physical barrier between the inmate and the officer, which 
>would then require a second unarmed officer to be on the inmate side of the 
>barrier with the medical crew...
>>
>This topic has come up recently and I was wondering what everyone else's 
>policy or procedures were when it came to the transport of prisoners?  Do 
>you or don't you transport?  If you do how do you restrain individuals?  
>Will you only transport if they are intubated?  Do you take law enforcement 
>officers or prison guards on the flight?  If so what do you do with their 
>weapon?
>

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