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Shit, in the US the police aren’t even required to intervene.
It's actually kind of funny you mention that. Police dont have a duty to act but medical professionals do so my state just started requiring all police to have an EMR (aka first responter training). That means that they're now "medical professionals" and have a legal duty to render aid whenever they are dispatched to a scene. I'm not sure how duty to act overlaps with qualified immunity but now there is at the very least a case to be made whenever they fail to render aid.
There were a lot of really salty cops in my last EMR class so I got to hear all about it.