Delaware state police are investigating a note left outside an ambulance dispatching facility in Camden that threatened police officers, firefighters and EMTs.
The note, discovered last Friday, advises agencies to “give all your employees bullet prof (sic) vest. We’re after all EMS, fire and police. Good luck a*******.”
Delaware State Police spokesman Master Cpl. Gary Fournier confirmed the agency was investigating the note. He said police were first notified around 10:50 p.m. last Friday and are currently examining the note and processing it for any potential fingerprints.
“Threats to law enforcement are not uncommon whether it be verbally or through social media,” Fournier wrote in an email. “We take these threats seriously and will continue to investigate any threats made to first responders.”
Cory Skidmore, vice president for operations and safety at Heart to Heart transportation, a Maryland-based private ambulance service, confirmed that the note was left outside of their Camden facility on a trash can.
“We’re taking it very seriously,” he said.
Skidmore said the Forest Hills, Maryland, company provides a number of basic and advanced life support services throughout the county. A memo was sent out to staff advising them of the memo, he said.
A picture of the note has been posted widely across social media. Dover Mayor Robin Christiansen said he first heard about it from Facebook and was texted a picture of the note.
“This is really, really sad,” Christiansen said. “Having been a fireman for many years, I think it is unconscionable that you would put a threat out there to the people you would call for any sort of emergency.”
“It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but nothing surprises me anymore,” he said.
State Fraternal Order of Police president Fred Calhoun said he had not heard about the note, but said it’s obviously something law enforcement has to take seriously. Twenty-six officers nationally have died in the line of duty this year, including one killed recently outside of Chicago.