Daily Mail
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, England — Ambulances have become so over-stretched that a police force has been drafted in to help take injured patients to hospital.
Officers in Nottinghamshire are having to take accident victims to the ER because cuts to ambulance services mean there are severe delays in picking them up. Nottinghamshire Police Federation today spoke out against the use of police to do the job of paramedics, saying it was a ‘real concern’ for officers.
Paddy Tipping, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire, said: ‘If there’s a death in the back of a police car the repercussion is it will go to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, so officers are quite anxious.