Movie mogul Bruce Gordon continued his Island wide philanthropy when he donated defibrillators to the Bermuda Police Service yesterday.

The equipment is used to treat people who have gone into cardiac arrest and it is the first time the BPS has had access to the life-saving technology which they plan to put on all the Police boats as well as in the Hamilton Police Centre.

Mr. Gordon has lived in Bermuda since the 1980s, he owns a home in Somerset and has a fortune estimated at $1 billion.

He credits Kerry Packer, who was Australia's richest man until he died in 2006, with giving him the idea to distribute the technology on the Island. Mr. Packer had a near-death experience and was revived through the use of a defibrillator.

When he learned that it was pure chance he was saved, because the ambulance dispatched to him was the only one with a defibrillator in the south Australian state New South Wales, he swore to ensure every ambulance in the state was equipped with heart-attack defibrillator equipment.

"A few years ago, being a plagiarist, I came up with the same thing," said Mr. Gordon. "I checked around (Bermuda) and found out there weren't any defibrillators so I gave nine new defibrillators to the hospital and then more went to the Airport and the Fire Service."

And yesterday he continued with his philanthropy by donating several to the Police Department. So far he has donated 30 defibrillator costing $2,500 — $3,800 a piece.

Heart attacks are one of the biggest killers in Bermuda, resulting in more than 100 deaths each year.

Survival rates drop by ten percent each minute after a person goes into cardiac arrest, so the earlier a person gets treatment the better.

The computerised machines, which fit in a suitcase, talk and show novices how to use them.

Police Commissioner George Jackson thanked Mr. Gordon for his generosity and added that the officers were looking forward to their training.