Working with police

Police make a scene safe. You treat the people in it. Each service does its own job.

• Police decide when a scene is safe to enter. You decide who is treated first and whether a patient goes to hospital.
• An officer may stay with a patient who is under arrest. The officer may not delay treatment to ask questions.
• Touch as little as you can at a crime scene. If you remove something from a patient that police will want, such as a round, say so to the officer in charge.
• A medic answering a call is not there to be a robbery crew’s hostage. Hostages have to be people who are part of the scene and willing to play it (§4.5).