Here in the States we had a big push to get "security" equipment to ambulance crews after so much money got churned out post-9/11. In Vermont, a friend's ambulance company was providing bulletproof vests for all crews (the cow:human ratio in Vermont is significantly in Bovine favor, and the risk of being shot is quite small). My friend, a paramedic, told his boss that he wouldn't need a vest, since he has all the safety equipment he needs to deal with a shooting scene already in his ambulance. When the shocked boss asked what that equipment might be, he replied, "binoculars."