David Brain

Background

About David Brain

30 years Policing experience, 21 years experience in roads policing including critical incident scene management, pursuit management, collision investigation, advanced vehicle examination. Control room supervisor inc special operations room. Major event road closure and opening schedule planning - both spontaneous and planned events. Tachograph examination. Tactical pursuit and containment advanced police driving. Police motorcyclist. Autocrimes vehicle identification. MPS Risk assessor including COSHH. NEBOSH NGC in Occupational health and safety. 3 x Commendations. Extensive experience of managing corporate risk within the field of incident management, accessing, re-evaluating and adapting plans as required. Extensive experience of assessing corporate risk within the field of drivers and vehicles including assessing all causation factors, identifying good and bad practice with a view to reducing risks and associated direct and indirect costs. Left Police in Dec 2019 after 30 years service and since March 2020 working for the East of England ambulance service trust. Now working as an Emergency care assistant. Role involves attending all types of emergency ambulance calls. Completing primary and secondary surveys, Emergency resus, Completing Safeguarding referrals where appropriate. Convey patients to hospital under normal and blue light conditions. Key skills: planning and organising, fast evaluation of information and decision making. Resource deployment based on need. People management including welfare, support and discipline. Reliable and punctual. IT skills inc MS Word, Exel, PowerPoint. Chronicle system, ePCR system. Police advanced PNC user with Vehicle online descriptive search (VODS) and Query using extended search techniques (QUEST). Extensive experience of in car data system analysis including RSG and UDS systems. Experience of in car and body worn video systems. Medical skills. Life support including use of OPA, NPA and Supraglottic airways. 12 lead ECG, Manual and automatic BP. BM and Sats. AED usage. Application of O2 and Entonox. Patient handling devices. IPC. NEWS2. L3 Diploma in Ambulance emergency and urgent care support. Driving and vehicle skills. Advanced Police driving to Tactical pursuit and containment level. Response level Police motorcyclist. Advanced vehicle examination including Compressed air brakes. Off road 4x4 trained inc recovery using winches and kinetic energy ropes. Vehicle escort trained, experience of using both cars and motorcycles in the role. L3 CERAD blue light Ambulance driving. Risk assessment.