Brian Bardsley EMT-P

Brian has a multifaceted background including experience in emergency medical services, law enforcement, and the military. He began his career as an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps from 1988 to 1994 including deployments in support of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and Operation Restore Hope. He served as a Medical Specialist in the United States Army Reserves from 1996 to 1999 and has been a Paramedic since January 1999. He has worked as both a single role Paramedic and as a Firefighter/Paramedic with several municipal fire departments including the Chicago Fire Department and the Stone Park Fire Department. From April 2000 to April 2009, while with Stone Park, he served as a HazMat Technician/MABAS Division XX HazMat Response Team Member. From 2006 to 2007, Brian served as a medic in an Illinois Army National Guard rifle company for a year tour in Baghdad in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, during which he earned a Bronze Star and Combat Medical Badge.

Brian is an experienced educator having given many invited local/regional, national, and international continuing education presentations as well as having served for 20 years as affiliate faculty at the Loyola University Medical Center Program for Prehospital Medicine and 5.5 years as an instructor in the Chicago Police Department specifically at the Terrorism Awareness and Response Academy, Tactical Training Unit, and Firearms Training Unit.

Brian has been with the Chicago Police Department since September 2004, first as a patrolman in District 015, then as an instructor in the Education and Training Division, and since 2013, as an officer with the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit. He is currently the medical team leader for SWAT and the team leader for the Weapons of Mass Destruction team.