Guidance

Ebola: use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by police

Advice on the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by police forces when dealing with people with Ebola virus disease (EVD).

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 20 October 2014
• Last updated: 13 February 2015
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  1. 13 February 2015

     Updated guidance.

  2. 22 January 2015

     Added 21 January guidance. PPE advice re-phrased to take into account police needs and their current procedures, stressing the very low probability of police coming into contact with a suspect Ebola case. Epidemiology updated. First port of call for Police (in case of a suspect Ebola case):local HPT (rather than 111).

  3. 28 November 2014

     Updated guidance on using personal protective equipment (PPE) for police.

  4. 25 November 2014

     Updated guidance with new fever threshold.

  5. 20 October 2014

     First published.

This publication was withdrawn on 21 June 2018

This document was withdrawn in June 2018. For current advice on Ebola, see the Ebola collection.

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This guidance was written during the 2014 to 2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Police officers may come into contact with people recently returned from outbreak countries, and this leaflet provides advice and information on the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).