"The Schuyler Police Department recently received a surprise that is meant to assist officers when out in the community.The Back the Blue Auxiliary made a sizable donation of tourniquets to SPD, as well as several other area law enforcement agencies. Schuyler Police Chief K.C. Bang said his officers …

A dentist donated life-saving equipment to a local sheriff’s office on Tuesday. Dr. Dave Templeton supplied the Scott County Sheriff’s Office with combat application tourniquets and carrying cases.The donation will allow every deputy and school resource officer to have the life-saving items with the …

A tourniquet had been sitting in Chicago Police Officer David DeLeon’s vest since he finished police academy two years ago.He was finally forced to use it — and to call on his training — earlier this week to help save a 15-year-old boy at the scene of a South Side shooting.“The more you do it, it’ll …