Westlake police recently received training and gear from two organizations dedicated to officer safety.
Cpl. Jason O’Rourke said the United States Deputy Sheriff’s Association conducted free survival training classes with officers in November. It was a boon for the department, O’Rourke said, because officers are required to have a certain amount of training each year.
“Training costs money most of the time,” he said. “So I got online, started doing some research and came across this organization. They donate equipment and training with certified training officers free to small departments.”
The classes, held over a two-day period at Westlake High School, were offered to all members of the department, including dispatchers and reserve officers.
“The first day they taught us tactical entry and active-shooter response,” O’Rourke said. “On the second day, they taught us instinctive hand-to-hand combat.”
He said the training was excellent and that participants told him they learned a lot.
The association also donated 80 traffic cones, as well as 20 striking and 20 kicking pads. O’Rourke said the department received the items shortly after being notified in August of the donation. He said he initially contacted the group in July.
“We really needed the cones with all the construction going on,” he said. “And the pads were also necessary since we need to train every day in defending ourselves.”
Westlake also received a donation of trauma kits in November from Blue Forever Inc. The kits, which go on officers’ rig belts, include a face shield, a tourniquet and QuikClot, a hemostatic gauze that helps stanch traumatic bleeding.
“If an officer is shot in the line of duty or goes to a scene where someone else has been shot or has any type of wound, you don’t have to run back to the car to get a trauma kit,” O’Rourke said. “It is actually on your person. It saves time.”
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Online: www.usdeputy.org, www.blueforever.org.
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