Three Victoria police officers are being credited for saving a man’s life yesterday.
The officers were in the 900-block of Craigflower Road dealing on Tuesday with an unrelated matter when they were alerted by a mother that her son was overdosing and choking on a sandwich nearby.
The officers quickly intervened and struggled to control the man so that they could offer lifesaving intervention.
Two officers controlled the man while the third administered abdominal thrusts to dislodge the food. A fourth VicPD member arrived on scene and was able to administer naloxone in order to reverse the effects of the overdose.
They were able to establish an airway and began supplying rescue breaths with a bag valve mask.
The man eventually regained consciousness, was treated by the B.C. Emergency Health Services then transported to hospital and released a short time later.
So far in 2018, VicPD officers have administered naloxone 11 times to people that were overdosing.
