Certified AEDs and trauma kits as overdose prevention

The FY2024, FY2025 and FY2026 reports certify the Borough's spending under Officer Awareness and Medical Response. Each gives Primary Prevention, Education, and Training as the primary category and Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention as a second category. Each says the program aims to save a victim of overdose with administration of Narcan and other medical supplies in the emergency vehicle (FY2024 pp3 to 4, FY2025 p4, FY2026 pp6 to 7). The account paid Safeguard US Operating 5,182.68 for micro trauma kits on order 232227, check 63489 on 01/09/2024. It paid Lifesavers, Inc. 1,918.00 for a Defibtech AED and 369.90 for its battery on order 250488, check 66162 on 05/13/2025, and 154.95 for a Defibtech Lifeline item on order 260279, check 67601 on 02/10/2026. It paid V. E. Ralph and Son 525.00 for adult defibrillator pads, check 66060 on 04/22/2025, and W.B. Mason 46.75 for band-aids, check 66160 on 05/13/2025. The six payments total 8,197.28, all inside certified figures. Defibrillators treat cardiac arrest and trauma kits treat bleeding. No overdose program using this equipment is documented. Defibrillators, trauma kits and first aid stock are not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no listed use covers them.