940.291 Law enforcement officer; failure to render aid.
(1) Any peace officer, while acting in the course of employment or under the authority of employment, who intentionally fails to render or make arrangements for any necessary first aid for any person in his or her actual custody is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor if bodily harm results from the failure. This subsection applies whether the custody is lawful or unlawful and whether the custody is actual or constructive. A violation for intentionally failing to render first aid under this subsection applies only to first aid which the officer has the knowledge and ability to render.
(2) Any peace officer who knowingly permits another person to violate sub. (1), while acting in the course of employment or under the authority of employment, is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
History: 1983 a. 27.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 940 - Crimes against life and bodily security.
940.01 - First-degree intentional homicide.
940.02 - First-degree reckless homicide.
940.05 - Second-degree intentional homicide.
940.06 - Second-degree reckless homicide.
940.07 - Homicide resulting from negligent control of vicious animal.
940.08 - Homicide by negligent handling of dangerous weapon, explosives or fire.
940.09 - Homicide by intoxicated use of vehicle or firearm.
940.10 - Homicide by negligent operation of vehicle.
940.11 - Mutilating or hiding a corpse.
940.16 - Partial-birth abortion.
940.19 - Battery; substantial battery; aggravated battery.
940.198 - Physical abuse of an elder person.
940.20 - Battery: special circumstances.
940.201 - Battery or threat to witnesses.
940.203 - Battery or threat to an officer of the court or law enforcement officer.
940.204 - Battery or threat to health care providers and staff.
940.205 - Battery or threat to department of revenue employee.
940.208 - Battery to certain employees of counties, cities, villages, or towns.
940.22 - Sexual exploitation by therapist; duty to report.
940.235 - Strangulation and suffocation.
940.24 - Injury by negligent handling of dangerous weapon, explosives or fire.
940.25 - Injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle.
940.285 - Abuse of individuals at risk.
940.29 - Abuse of residents of penal facilities.
940.291 - Law enforcement officer; failure to render aid.
940.295 - Abuse and neglect of patients and residents.
940.315 - Global positioning devices.
940.34 - Duty to aid victim or report crime.
940.42 - Intimidation of witnesses; misdemeanor.
940.43 - Intimidation of witnesses; felony.
940.44 - Intimidation of victims; misdemeanor.
940.45 - Intimidation of victims; felony.
940.46 - Attempt prosecuted as completed act.