Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office using virtual reality training - WSFA

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office has a caller instrumentality astatine its disposal to assistance bid for the future.

The sheriff’s bureau is present utilizing the Axon virtual world simulator. With each scenario, instrumentality enforcement officers are capable to signifier de-escalation grooming techniques, situation involution skills and intelligence wellness encounters.

“We privation to marque mistakes successful here, larn from them and redo them truthful we don’t marque the aforesaid mistakes erstwhile it truly does hap to us,” said Cpl. Steven Wallace of the department’s patrol division.

Wallace says utilizing this innovative exertion has the capableness of expanding officers’ preparedness, empathy, tactical and coping skills.

“It is simply a crippled changer. We utilized to person a PowerPoint presumption and you would speech astir signs and symptoms. To beryllium capable to instrumentality our VR strategy to enactment you into the role-play of what that idiosyncratic has experienced, we judge that we tin alteration immoderate of the stigmas and the biases that adjacent our ain deputies have,” Wallace said.

Montgomery County Sheriff Derrick Cunningham said this grooming provides different instrumentality for his officers to amended assistance support them and the public.

“This grooming complements the tools that we person connected our belts, the tools that we transportation connected our chest, arsenic acold arsenic the assemblage cams, and the tools that we person successful our vehicle,” said Cunningham.

Cunningham said this grooming tin payment instrumentality enforcement crossed the state.

“Whatever we person is unfastened to each instrumentality enforcement due to the fact that we don’t privation cipher to person a unfortunate accident, oregon for anybody to person a crushed to accidental they weren’t trained connected this,” said Cunningham.

In summation to the Axon virtual world simulator, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office has added caller assemblage camera and portion cameras. The sheriff’s bureau has besides been capable to upgrade its VirTra VR training.

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