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The Voice of Seguin Today
Volume 55, Number 027 830-379-2234
Seguin Police Officer relies on training to help save a life Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- The life saving efforts put into action last month by a Seguin Police Officer is not going unnoticed. Last month on Jan. 18, Officer Brian Lopez and other officers responded to a shooting in the 600 block of Melrose Street. Officer Lopez was second on scene and located a male victim in the roadway suffering from a gunshot wound in the middle of his chest. Officer Lopez immediately and calmly requested another officer to grab a department issued IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit) kit from the vehicle while he held his gloved hand over the open chest wound. Officer Lopez placed a chest seal over the wound, rolled the victim into the recovery position, and began quickly sweeping for additional injuries. Fire/EMS arrived shortly and took over care of the victim. The victim was transported to a trauma hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.
has tenants to it. One, they want officers to slow down and not drive too fast, want to make sure they wear their body armor, want to make sure they stay fit, they wear their seatbelts and that they have the tactical competencies that we need as a police officer -- that they are doing the right things tactically, safe. They developed this award program in conjunction with the Texas Municipal League which is the city's insurance carrier because it is in their best interest that if we do things right, that insurance claims will go down as well so they bought these first aid kits to award officers that are nominated for doing great things and Officer Lopez was nominated and they all agreed -- the committee that looked at this -- agreed to his actions in January absolutely merited the award," said Nichols. Nichols says as part of that recognition, Officer Lopez on Thursday was awarded his own personal IFAK kit, a VINCIBLE patch and VINCIBLE challenge coin from the TPCA.
"Officer Lopez is very well trained and he was very calm under pressure on this particular incident. He knew exactly what to do and that just shows the training. Not only did he do the training but he retained the "They have a program called VINCI- training and this is what we expect of BLE. It's a PowerPoint training that our officers and he's a great examwe get every week from them and it ple of the quality of officers that we That night's efforts according to Seguin Police Chief Terry Nichols resulted in Lopez's nomination for a VINCIBLE Award through the Texas Police Chief's Association (TPCA).
Seguin Police Chief Terry Nichols presents Officer Brian Lopez with awards following his nomination to the VINCIBLE Award program. The officer training program is provided through the Texas Police Chief's Association. have here at the department that us. So, I'm very proud of them and I proud of him," said Nichols. Officer they are capable of doing this not think any of our officers would have Lopez has served the Seguin Police just our police job but this is actually acted the same way but it happened Department for the last two and a kind of outside -- a medical role for to be Brian that night and I'm very half years.
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