Law Enforcement Responder

The Essentials of Law Enforcement Emergency Response Public safety professionals and emergency responders today face greater threats than ever before in our history. The traditional role of law enforcement has vastly expanded to require extraordinarily broad-based emergency response capabilities. Law Enforcement Responder: Principles of Emergency Medicine, Rescue, and Force Protection prepares homeland security leaders, law enforcement officers, security professionals, and public safety officials for the wide range of emergency responses they must perform on a daily basis. Law Enforcement Responder explores the vast array of law enforcement demands for emergency responses including resuscitation, trauma, and illness, as well as the essential considerations for special populations such as children and the elderly. The textbook addresses all of the competency statements in the National EMS Education Standards at the Emergency Medical Responder level, as well as additional lifesaving content specific to law enforcement that far exceeds the core curriculum. Law Enforcement Responder accommodates the tremendous diversity in the modern law enforcement mission by providing current and expert emergency medicine content in a highly adaptable format. Nationally recognized experts present key mission-specific topics, including police officer survival, tactical medicine, executive protection, active shooter response, canine first aid, military medicine, travel medicine, in-flight emergencies, ordnance ballistics, less lethal munitions, incarceration and prisoner care, fire-rescue and hazardous materials, and much more.

'Randy Stair is currently the Supervisory Emergency Services Specialist for the United States Secret Service. Mr. Stair has been with the Secret Service since 1999. Mr. Stair started his fire, rescue and paramedical career in 1980 with Pleasant Valley Community Fire Company, Inc., Carroll County Maryland. He has had the opportunity to provide emergency services for West Friendship in Howard County Maryland as well as the Baltimore County Fire Department. Mr. Stair has had considerable success in establishing EMS training programs. He has assisted many jurisdictions by providing paramedic training programs throughout Maryland. He primarily developed and implemented the EMS training programs for the Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association and the Baltimore County Fire-Rescue Academy.Mr. Stair has a dual career, also practicing as a Critical Care RN since 1985. Mr. Stair has practiced clinically at the Baltimore Regional Burn Center and the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. In 1990 Mr. Stair was intimately involved in developing the first Critical Care Transport program in Maryland at the Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Stair became a consultant for Critical Care Transport nursing and worked to establish and operate other critical care ground and rotary wing transport programs, including Maryland Express Care, at University of Maryland.In the 1990s Mr. Stair developed and implemented several EMS and rescue training courses to support federal law enforcement, local and state police in Maryland. He has been and remains actively involved in the development of the Maryland EMS system. He volunteers as the Director of the Paramedic Program at Carroll Community College. He is an alumni of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, the Johns Hopkins University and is currently a graduate student at the United States Naval War College.

Involved in EMS since 1975, and a paramedic since 1982, Dwight Polk is currently a volunteer paramedic in Maryland. He has held the position of Paramedic Program Director at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) since 1990. Prior to arriving at UMBC, Mr. Polk was a field paramedic and Education Coordinator at Acadian Ambulance Service in Lafayette , Louisiana.'In 1996, Mr. Polk completed his Master’s Degree in Occupational Social Work at UMBC; specializing in Employee Assistance Programs. As part of his clinical Master’s Degree, Mr. Polk participated in two specialized internships: first, providing psychotherapy to patients with head injuries at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore; and second, in an employee assistance program at the National Security Agency (NSA).'After receiving licensure as a social worker in the State of Maryland, Mr. Polk became active in the field of Critical Incident Stress, while studying under the mentorship of Jeffrey Mitchell, PhD, President Emeritus of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. Mr. Polk is still an active mental health professional for two CISM teams in the Baltimore area, and is a Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) instructor for the Howard County (MD) Mental Health Authority and Howard County Police Department.'Since February of 2005, Mr. Polk has held a contractual position as a mobile crisis team (MCT) member for the Grassroots 'Crisis Center in Columbia, Maryland. As an MCT member, he responds to various scenes to conduct crisis intervention for individuals and families, or psychiatric evaluations for emergency petition (72 hour emergency commitment).

Geoff Shapiro is the Operational Medicine Programs Coordinator for The George Washington University, Emergency Health Services Program.'He has been involved in EMS since 1993, and for'11 years was a lead emergency medicine instructor at a premier federal law enforcement agency training center located in the Washington, DC area.'Recently, Geoff has worked with various military special operations forces providing tactical combat casualty care and emergency medicine courses, as well as continues to provide education and training to various police departments, fire departments, EMS agencies, undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students at GW.'He is also a contributing author and reviewer of EMS textbooks, and presents at local, national, and international conferences.

Dr. Tang is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Director of its Division of Special Operations.'He is the Executive Medical Director for Johns Hopkins LIFELINE, the critical care ground and air medical transport program of the Johns Hopkins Health System.'Dr. Tang has been the Director of Medical Operations for the Baltimore Marathon and oversees medical support for numerous mass-gathering events annually throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.'Dr. Tang is the Director of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University.'Dr. Tang has had extensive experience in Tactical Medicine and with providing operational medical oversight and support to law enforcement agencies.'Dr. Tang is the Medical Director for the United States Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the United States Marshals Service and DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement and senior medical advisor to the Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service.'In 2007, Dr. Tang created the first national Center for Law Enforcement Medicine and continues to serve as its Chief Medical Officer, providing and supervising direct medical support for tactical operations, international missions, National Special Security Events and high-risk training operations.'Dr. Tang is a current Special Deputy United States Marshal and Tactical Physician with the Maryland State Police.'He is seated on the Board of Directors of the Coalition for Tactical Medicine as well as the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care.