Yesterday I was taking a break from studying. I just passed my state paramedic examination and I'm preparing for nyc remac exam. I took my girl out to the movies and on the way thre minivan in front of me flipped and rolled on the highway. By the time I got out of my car and run up 2 females crowled out of the wreck and stood up. I run up, yell at everyone to move back, clear the scene and check for additional victims. I got to 2 ambulatory victims that are surrounded by bystanders. I asked who called 911 and many people say they did. I instruct two bystanders to hold manual stabilization of the head and never let go. So guy comes out of nowhere and asks patients to sit down. I turn around and look at him like he is a retard and tell him that pts while standing up with no movement in the c-spine, heads are being held in line and when ambulance comes they just do rapid takedown. He starts yelling that he is a paramedic. Well so am I. So the vicxtims stand becasue I asked him where he works and he just said mumbled something under his nose. Off duty cop shows up and wants to be in charge. He tell the patients to sit down. I asked him about his level of medical training. He tells me he is a cop. In the meantime paramedic who was watching two victims tells bystanders to let go of the head anf cspine stabiliazation. I got really angry, called 911, made a report my way which I knew was being recorded, walked up to the paramedic asked him if he is in charge which he acknowledged, walked up to the cop who just gave me a dirty look, got in my car and went to the zoo becasue movie was sold out. How much of the ratard you have to be to issue "sit down" orders without cspine mobilization to a person who was just involved in rollover in car going 50 mph?

I haven't been an emt for a long time (2-3) years and my ink on my paramedic card hasn't dried out yet. But this was a basic call that anyone with some common sense would handle the right way.

I left. I followed the rules and had the smae level of medical training on the scene with off duty pd taking over. I just pray the god that if something like that happens to my friends somebody with common sense would be the first on the scene not two morons who probably never did a mva.