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Deputy Christopher Pope has been with the Davis County Sheriff's Department for six years. But an average day at work is more than issuing citations, making arrests and keeping the peace. That's because he's also a paramedic. Deputy Pope is part of a select few in the state who are cross-trained to be both law enforcement and life saver. We can carry everything that we need to treat a critical patient or even just a regular patient immediately and then we have a partner who shows up in an SUV with full gear within the next few minutes. Being on a motorcycle allows the 42 deputy paramedics county-wide access in hard to reach places We've responded to EMS calls in the middle of a parade where we've had to break off from doing our tricks and our circles and everything and turn around and go treat a patient. The Davis County Motor's Division was actually inspired by the Miami-Dade fire department where they decreased their response time by 15 minutes down to 3 minutes. Here they have a similar goal. Although the department hasn't studied how their response time has improved, deputy Pope says he knows the program is saving lives. Most recently with the woman suffering a massive heart attack. We transported her to the hospital, we skipped the ER, went straight to surgery and she came out with no problems at all, no side effects. The motorcycles are equipped with IVs, an oxygen tank, breathing tubes and pain medication. It doesn't look If deputy Pope comes across an emergency situation where a patient broke the law, the protocol is clear. We separate the two. We tell them, look, we're a paramedic, we're here to treat you. I'm not worried about law enforcement right now. Keeping the department's main goal front and center. Treating patients and getting to them fast and getting that treatment on board as soon as we possibly can. And hopefully sharing the idea with other departments. Ashley Q-ish, KSL 5 News.
