Sanchez asks how often NYPD responds before EMS

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and good morning.

First and foremost, thank you for everything that you do, for the work that your members do.

So I want to start with two experiences from my community.

Two weeks ago, my 90-year-old neighbor fell and struck his head.

NYPD officers arrived on the scene, I want to say, within five minutes, applied pressure to his wound, cared for him for those 25 minutes remaining that it took for an ambulance to arrive.

And then officers in my local precincts, the 46th, the 50th, the 52nd, they tell me how frequently patrol cars are being pulled away from other duties to respond to even nonviolent medical emergencies.

And then, of course, I think everyone saw in the news when ICE shot a New Yorker in my community a little over a week ago, it was an NYPD officer who transported that father to the hospital.

And I do want to say I consider that officer a hero, but I think the question here is that while a life

saved is a life saved, these experiences are not what New Yorkers should be seeing across the city with NYPD responding to medical emergencies instead of trained professionals.

So my questions are how frequently is NYPD arriving before EMS at a medical emergency?

Is it always a 100% overlap that NYPD is responding to?

these emergencies nowadays, given the shortages, how often are police officers transporting patients to hospitals because an ambulance isn't available?

And if you don't know that, then period.

How often is NYPD transporting folks to a hospital?

And I'll stop there.

So we don't record when the PD arrives before us.

In my experience, that most of the time, the great majority of the time, either a fire engine or the ambulance arrives at the scene first.

There are times, obviously, that the police department will be there, such as that shooting.

We had units responding.

That was obviously a shooting.

It's a priority for us, and we got there pretty quick.

The patient was already gone.

So we know anecdotally that there are times when the NYPD transports patients because we didn't have hands on the patient.

We don't have, we don't see that.

We don't have a report of that.

You have numbers.

We know that with talking with the police department, they record that in their reports, and they were not able to pull it quick enough for us, for this hearing, to get it from us.

But we do know that it happens.

Thank you.

And let the record reflect that the chair, thank you, Madam Chair, and I did request this information yesterday morning, understanding that's not a whole lot of time, but we really do want to make sure we have that information to have a complete picture.

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