“Including police departments in this conversation is critical. My hope is that by placing Avive AEDs on police vehicles, we have ensured that we’re going to save lives in the future. I believe that there will be an event where our officers are first on the scene and having access to Avive will literally mean life or death.”
In a powerful example of community care and collaboration, the Brisbane Police Department and the City of Brisbane, CA have introduced Avive Connect AED®s into both their police force and high-traffic public areas, ensuring that help is never far away in a cardiac emergency.
This effort began when City Manager Jeremy Dennis recognized a simple but urgent truth: more publicly accessible AEDs could mean more lives saved, and that their community deserved the best tools possible. At the same time, the Brisbane Police Department was looking for a compact AED that could be carried by their Motor Division. Often first on the scene, police officers play a critical, yet often underutilized role in Sudden Cardiac Arrest response. The Brisbane team discovered a solution right in their own neighborhood: Avive Solutions, a medtech company headquartered just down the street.
The Avive Connect AED® stood out to both teams for various reasons. Weighing only 2.1 lbs, GPS trackable, remotely monitored, and designed with easy-to-follow visual and audio prompts, the device offered exactly what the City needed to empower both first responders and everyday citizens.
Today, thanks to this partnership, every active patrol vehicle in Brisbane is equipped with an AED. Additionally, the City’s publicly accessible AEDs are a familiar tool to their first responders, and accessibly for bystanders. Officer Chad Miller, who oversees the police department’s AED training and upkeep, uses Avive’s REALConnect™ Platform to monitor their entire AED fleet remotely, ensuring they’re always ready without needing time-consuming manual checks.
For Avive, this initiative is deeply personal. As a company headquartered in Brisbane, being able to protect and support the very streets we live and work in is an incredible honor. Our mission has always been to make life-saving tools accessible and reliable. To do so in our own community, alongside local leaders and heroes, is truly meaningful.
This is more than just a public safety upgrade. It’s a story of neighbors looking out for one another, of shared responsibility, and of what’s possible when a community comes together to protect its own.
“The uniformity of having one device and one model that everyone’s using, the Avive AED, is amazing. There’s no confusion. Having somebody seeing something that’s familiar makes a stressful situation so much easier.”
“Anyone who’s had a smartphone or tablet will find that it's very similar to that functionality. I found it to be very easy to understand, direct, with explicit instructions. I thought that anybody could do it.”
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