This is an equipment guide, not medical training. Trauma kit helps you only if you know how to use it. Book nationally accredited first aid or tactical casualty care training before you carry any of it.
Why you carry a second medical pouch
You reach the vehicle collision before the ambulance does. You get to the assault victim while paramedics are eight minutes out. Australian police treat casualties as part of the job now, and the kit on your plate carrier is the whole of what you have to work with when you get there.
Your IFAK covers you. Open it for a member of the public and you have spent your own supplies on someone else. Officers who have worked two bad jobs in one shift tend to carry a second pouch for that reason.
The Medic Sausage Roll gives you that second layer. It is a roll-up medical pouch that mounts to a plate carrier and holds a working trauma load, and it stays small enough that you wear it every shift instead of leaving it in the car.
Mounting it on a plate carrier
The Medic Sausage Roll attaches to the hook-and-loop sandwich at the base of a compatible plate carrier, front or rear. Mount it there and your magazines stay clear while your MOLLE stays free for other kit. You also tear the pouch away without dragging it past anything else on the rig.
Pick one position and hold it across each set of kit you own. Under stress you reach where you trained to reach.
Pack it full
Fill the roll with as much as you can fit. Trauma bandages, chest seals, nitrile gloves and trauma shears all sit in the internal elastic loops, which gives you a responder-level load in a pouch the size of a rolled towel.
Packing it tight buys you something past capacity. The contents press outward against the external elastic tourniquet mount, which tightens its hold on the tourniquet and keeps it seated while you run, climb or fight. Run the pouch half empty and that elastic goes slack.
Two pouches, two jobs
Most experienced operators carry more than one medical pouch. The split works like this:
- Your IFAK, mounted elsewhere on your kit. This one treats you, and it stays sealed.
- The Medic Sausage Roll as your responder kit. You open this one for members of the public and for other officers.
Keep them apart and you never treat a stranger out of your own kit, then find it empty when your turn comes. For what belongs in the personal kit, read our IFAK fitout guide.
Empty pouch or fitted out
We build the Medic Sausage Roll in Australia and sell it two ways. Buy it empty if you hold your own stock or work to unit-specified contents. Buy the General Operational Fitout if you want a working kit from day one. Both come in Black, Ranger Green, Coyote Tan, Multicam and AMP for serving members, and the rest of the range sits in our medical collection.
After you open it
Restock the pouch at the end of the shift you use it on. Bin anything with torn packaging, log the age of your tourniquets, and book your next training block while you are at it.