FOI 452/25 Police Medical Officers
Enquiry Reference: 452 -25
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
Can you confirm if any of Cleveland' serving Police officers were qualified medical doctors during the month of December 2022.
If so, please provide the collar number and surname of any officers who are during the above date.
- No information held. In theory, we could have officers who have had a career change and are technically still qualified doctors, but we do not have that information recorded.
Please also disclose what level of medical trading are provided to armed officers during the above date.
- All armed officers were trained and authorised in line with the national role profile for ‘Armed Response Vehicle Officer’.
The National Police Firearms Training Curriculum, owned by the college of policing, outlines the standards in terms of learning outcomes and performance criteria which must be attained by our armed officers under the D13 module.
This equates nowadays to Level 4 of the First Aid Learning Programme (FALP).
In 2022 approximately 20 armed officers were trained to an enhanced medical training level. This is known in Cleveland Police as ‘Tactical Team Medic’ (TTM).
This level gave, in 2022, roughly a 75% increase in yearly training time and the capability to deliver additional medical provision, for example the delivery of ‘Penthrox’ analgesia.
TTM nowadays would sit at the highest FALP level 5.
Having made enquiries within the Force above is all the information we hold. Please note that all statistical data supplied in relation to Freedom of Information requests is a snapshot of data held at the time the request was received by the Freedom of Information office and is subject to constant change/updates.
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Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker