Providing the highest quality of emergency medical care possible is extremely important to the members of the Hopkinton Police Department. The police department shares the responsibility of emergency medical care with the Hopkinton Fire Department. Members of both departments are certified First Responders and Emergency Medical Technicians.

Two fully equipped ambulances are housed at the downtown fire station. Additionally, all of the police department's cruisers are equipped with emergency first aid kits and oxygen tanks.

Over the past two years the police department has purchased 3 Semi Automatic External Defibrillator (SAED) units using community policing grant funding made available from The Executive Office of Public Safety. These units are designed to administer life saving shocks of electricity which can restore a viable heartbeat to a cardiac patient.

The defibrillator units have already proven their value as an effective life saving tool. In February of 2000 a man called the police department to report that his wife was not feeling well. The responding officers found the thirty-three year old woman in cardiac arrest. They applied the pads of the defibrillator to the woman's chest and administered two shocks. The woman regained a viable heart beat and was transported to the hospital. She is now recovering and enjoying her newborn baby "Daniel" who was only three and a half months old at the time of the incident.

Paramedic level care is provided to the town by The Milford-Whitinsville Regional Hospital and The Metro West Medical Center in Framingham. When requested these hospitals dispatch paramedic teams directly to the scene. When an even higher level of care or a quicker transport time is needed The University of Massachusetts Medical Center provides the service of their LifeFlight Helicopter. This helicopter is staffed with a team of doctors and nurses who come directly to the scene. The helicopter is also capable of transporting patients by air to the hospital.