First batch of VR police training systems installed: Police agency - Focus Taiwan

Taipei, Jan. 11 (CNA) The National Police Agency (NPA) has finished installing Taiwan's archetypal virtual world (VR) constabulary grooming systems astatine 7 constabulary departments and institutions crossed Taiwan to hole constabulary officers for tense situations successful the enactment of duty.

The VR systems were installed astatine the New Taipei, Taoyuan, Kaohsiung, and Chiayi County constabulary departments, and the Railway Police Bureau, the Taiwan Police College, and the First Police Special Corps 6th Corps by the extremity of past twelvemonth astatine a outgo of NT$45 cardinal (US$1.47 million), according to the agency.

While immoderate section constabulary forces had acquired augmented-reality (AR) immersive constabulary grooming systems nether a peculiar task launched successful 2020, the VR grooming systems are the archetypal of their benignant successful Taiwan and connection caller grooming features, the NPA said.

They necessitate users to deterioration headsets, portion the AR systems, which usage projection screens, bash not, enabling the simulation of antithetic settings, including karaoke bars, concourses, bid carriages and checkpoints.

Through specified simulations, officers are trained to beryllium much alert of their surroundings, portion being fixed the accidental to signifier their skills and go much acquainted with situations requiring them to usage weapons, improving their show successful a crisis, the NPA said.

Trained officers tin beryllium primed for a wide scope of scenarios, specified arsenic erstwhile facing provocations, threats, attempts to flee, oregon attacks from a suspect, successful which they person to respond rapidly and appropriately, the NPA said.

The strategy besides enables officers to simulate talking with suspects, choosing from antithetic types of constabulary weapons and deciding erstwhile to occurrence their gun, and adjacent has a "multiple players" mode successful which aggregate officers tin bid astatine the aforesaid clip to supply "backup" for their colleagues.

The renewed accent connected grooming for constabulary officers to grip unexpected situations oregon crises came aft the decease of railway constabulary serviceman Lee Cheng-han (李承翰).

Lee was stabbed to decease successful 2019 astatine the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) Chiayi Station by a mentally sick rider riding without a summons who had gotten into an altercation with the conductor earlier Lee was called to the scene.

Former NPA Director-General Chen Ja-chin (陳家欽) said successful 2020 that successful the aftermath of Lee's death, the NPA was fixed a fund of NT$480 cardinal to procure and instal situational simulation shooting ranges astir Taiwan to bid constabulary officers' quality to marque speedy and dependable judgments portion discharging their duties.

The NPA said it intends to acquisition much VR grooming systems to instal astatine different constabulary departments and institutions, and to inquire instructors to assistance make virtual settings based connected past missions that volition marque the grooming much realistic and broaden its scope.