The Invest in Blue fund is dedicated to equipping our officers with the resources they need to keep our communities safe. This fund helps provide essential equipment and training programs, as well as support community outreach initiatives, all of which are important and require significant funding.
The need to help keep our officers safe, healthy, and effective while on the job is the driving force and purpose behind the Invest in Blue Fund. Examples of equipment we have worked to provide to our departments are Trauma Kits and Ballistic Vest Plates.
Trauma kits were recognized as an immediate need for officers and a motivating factor in the initial creation of the Central Indiana Police Foundation. Police officers are often the first to arrive on-scene, so these compact and portable kits allow them to provide immediate medical care for serious and potentially life-threatening injuries while they wait on medical assistance teams.
These vest plates provide police officers with an extra layer of defense in their line of work. Ballistic plates are lightweight, yet durable, and are designed to provide the officers with added protection from bullet rounds and other potentially harmful projectiles.
These kits were developed by the Indianapolis Metro Police Department. In 2015 every Indianapolis officer received training with the kit. Hundreds of lives have been saved since that time. Officers and citizens have received the life saving benefit.
An anonymous donor has offered to match up to $35,000 for this challenge! Your donation will help us raise the $100,000 needed to provide these kits and training to all of the sworn officers in your area!
We depend on members like you to fulfill our mission in supporting traumatically injured officers and their families, providing supplemental resources for officers in the line of duty, and building positive officer-community partnerships.