Crime & Safety
Peninsula Patrol Cars Equipped With Life-saving Devices
The East Palo Alto Police Department will hit the streets with defibrillators to ward off cardiac arrest.
EAST PALO ALTO, CA — Patrol vehicles of the East Palo Alto Police Department are now equipped with automated external defibrillators, enabling officers to assist people having a cardiac issue, Police Chief Albert Pardini announced Tuesday.
The Palo Alto-based nonprofit group Racing Hearts (www.racinghearts.org) donated 13 of the devices to the department.
"Although our officers had previously received training on the operations of AEDs, they would only have been able to use them if one was readily available," Pardini said in a news release. "With the generous donation of the devices from "Racing Hearts", each patrol officer will have this potentially lifesaving technology available for their use in their vehicles."
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—Bay City News