Strike Industries has introduced the Ricci Ankle Medical System. Designed by a SWAT officer, it is an ankle mounted medical pouch intended to ensure that every LE officer can have life saving medical gear on him at all times.
The pouch has three pockets, one of which is secured with a Velcro cover. The smaller pockets can carry the major tourniquets on the market with the main pocket able to carry hemostatic agents, gauze or chest seals.
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Cool idea, but it’s a shame that even uniformed LEOs have to hide their life-saving supplies.
Not so much hiding them. With service pistol, mags, OC spray, Taser, ASP, radio, 2x cuffs, light, gloves there simply isn’t room on the belt–especially if s/he is in the kind of shape that lots of cops are in these days
EMS carries gear on the calf and ankle because they’re usually treating people on the ground. As would a cop.
This is a great idea/great way to carry your blow out kit.
It’s not that you have to hide your medical supplies so much as that there just isn’t any leftover room on a LE’s duty belt for these essential items to treat the biggest preventable causes of death from penetrating trauma:
1) Massive Extremity Hemorrhage <- Tourniquet
2) Airway Obstruction/Injury <- Nasal/Oral Airway
3) Sucking Chest Wound/Tension Pneumothorax <- Chest seal, Decompression needle
4) Soft Tissue Injuries/Wounds <- Gauze/Hemostatic agent
Unless you are using a ballistic vest external carrier system, your duty belt is no doubt already waaaayyy too cluttered to carry all these things. An First Aid Kit on a thigh rig is a bit unwieldly, and your FAK that's sitting in your squad car will most certainly be too far away when you need it most.
Another benefit of the ankle rig is that it's out of the way, and easily accessible (ie. while kneeling to take care of a victim) yet won't add to the bulk around your waist that would make it difficult to get in/out/sit in a vehicle.
Can’t agree more!
That musick needs to go.
I like this idea for personnel that don’t have to move long distances on foot. When you’re doing infantry-type work though, you want as little weight on your legs as possible to prevent wearing them out.
It’s for LE and not Mil
Then again, pursuing on foot still does happen in many cities around the world and at that point anything worn on ankle does not help…