Federal budget funds $175,000 Virtual Reality training for Chesterfield Sheriff’s Office - WRIC ABC 8News

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WRIC) — The national authorities has granted the Chesterfield Sheriff’s Office $175,000 to commencement a virtual world grooming programme for sheriff’s deputies.

The funding, sponsored by Representative Abigail Spanberger, volition beryllium utilized to acquisition a VR strategy featuring “realistic simulations that summation proficiency successful de-escalation and situation involution skills.”

Spanberger presently represents portions of Chesterfield, though her territory was precocious shifted further North, and nary longer includes the county.

“This capableness is simply a harmless and precise realistic method to bid our deputies connected however to respond to antithetic situations they whitethorn look connected the occupation that tin beryllium specifically tailored to our environment,” said Sheriff Karl Leonard. “This eclipses the outdated and constricted accepted sprout oregon don’t sprout simulators antecedently utilized successful instrumentality enforcement.”

According to a property merchandise from the congresswoman’s office, the programme is designed to trim use-of-force by the sheriff’s office, which oversees the region jailhouse and information astatine the region courthouse.