Different places do it differently.
My former department's SWAT team had several senior FD firefighter/paramedics volunteer as "Tactical Medics", they would attend all training as well as respond with SWAT on every call out.
DPD made the headlines a few years back as they employ not just EMTs or Paramedics but they have full blown MD trauma surgeons on their team.
Doctors in Bulletproof Vests
Dr. Alex Eastman doesn't lack for excitement in his life. He is a surgeon at Parkland Memorial Hospital, the busiest trauma center in Dallas, meeting the ambulances that carry human bodies wrecked by car accidents, gunshots and the violence of a big city.
But that's his tame job. Half the week he exchanges his hospital scrubs for a bulletproof vest and heads out with the Dallas SWAT team.
Having a doctor along can mean the difference between life and death when a cop is shot.
Police Lt. Carlton Marshall is living proof. Marshall was shot in the neck during a raid Oct. 17.
Within minutes of hearing "officer down!" Eastman and his partner, Dr. Jeff Metzger, went to work. Metzger held the officer's head while Eastmen performed an emergency tracheotomy, cutting a hole in the officer's neck to allow him to breathe.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3782762&page=1
http://www.emsworld.com/news/1040844...-officers-life
http://gruntdoc.com/2007/10/swat-doc...in-dallas.html
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