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What cops need to know about treating gunshot wounds

If you show up on the scene of a shooting and someone has a sucking chest wound, do you have the right equipment and do you know how to use it?

If you show up before the paramedics on the scene of a shooting and someone has a sucking chest wound, do you have the right equipment and do you know how to use it? In this tip, risk management expert and Lexipol co-founder Gordon Graham outlines what cops need to know about treating gunshot wounds.

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Gordon Graham has been actively involved in law enforcement since 1973. He spent nearly 10 years as a very active motorcycle officer while also attending Cal State Long Beach to achieve his teaching credential, USC to do his graduate work in Safety and Systems Management with an emphasis on Risk Management, and Western State University to obtain his law degree. In 1982 he was promoted to sergeant and also admitted to the California State Bar and immediately opened his law offices in Los Angeles.

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