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To render effective medical aid, you must have the proper equipment and know how to use it. Your tourniquet is an essential part of your equipment. Join Chief David Flory (retired) and Paramedic Corporal Laura Hill in an interactive virtual learning environment to discuss important tips for tourniquet use, review the Tactical Combat Casualty Care-recommended tourniquets, and view live demonstrations of correct tourniquet use.

Maintaining a healthy diet can be difficult when working different shifts around the clock. Join Chief Lori Luhnow and Dr. Greg Huron in cooking demonstrations for healthful, delicious, protein-packed meals so that you have nutritious, on-the-go options prepared ahead of time to take with you when you hit the road.

As part of the 2022 IACP Officer Safety and Wellness event, the VALOR Initiative Safer Together: Strengthening the Foundations of Officer Safety and Wellness presentation introduces the Safer Together Campaign focused on the relationship between officer safety, wellness, and community trust.

The duty to intervene in a situation that involves excessive use of force by another officer is your responsibility as a sworn officer. Chief John Bouthillette, a lead instructor for the VALOR Program, and Mr. Bruce-Alan Barnard, a nationally renowned law enforcement legal educator, discuss the reality of what duty to intervene means for officers. You have no protection under the law for failing to intervene when you have the opportunity. You have a duty to intervene. Do not get caught in a moral or ethical dilemma.