Certified police defibrillators as overdose prevention

The FY2026 report lists one program, Purchase of defibrillators, recipient the Borough, funded 08/12/2025 and launched 07/09/2025, with 22,642.51 funded and spent (p4 to p5). It gives the primary problem and the purpose as lifesaving measures, and the intended impact as AEDs for police officers on patrol and for all Borough buildings. It files the program under Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, with the Schedule B strategy Prevent Overdose Deaths and Other Harms, reports 0 individuals served, and says the program focuses on life saving measures in the case of overdose (p5 to p6). The books show two checks on 08/12/2025. Lifesavers Inc. check 020138 paid 22,037.78 for AED packages and pads on purchase orders 25-01072, 25-01074 and 25-01098. LifeVac LLC check 020139 paid 604.73 for ten LifeVac anti-choking travel kits on purchase order 25-01181. Every order ships to the police department. The report does not mention the anti-choking kits. Defibrillators treat cardiac arrest and a LifeVac clears a blocked airway. Neither reverses an overdose. The Borough had bought the same kinds of equipment from its current fund before. No overdose program using this equipment is documented, and neither item is among the uses Exhibit E lists.