Crossville Police To Carry EpiPens

Officers with the Crossville police Department will soon be equipped with epiPens.

City Manager Greg Wood said Cookeville Regional Charitable Foundation has offered to provide the life saving medication to the police department.

“We’ve lost at least one individual in this city who had some wasp stings and succumbed to anaphylactic shock because responding officer did not have this available,” Wood said. “Hopefully we won’t have to save a life, but if we need to we will have the training and the material.”

The city will pay $300 for materials and training for the EpiPens.

In August, the Cookeville Police Department became the first department in the state and second in the nation to be equipped with the drug.