Police install more virtual reality training systems - 台北時報

• Staff writer, with CNA

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The National Police Agency has finished installing its 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 City, Taoyuan, Kaohsiung and Chiayi County constabulary departments, arsenic good arsenic the Railway Police Bureau, the Taiwan Police College and the First Police Special Corps 6th Corps astatine the extremity of past year, costing NT$45 cardinal (US$1.48 million), the bureau said.

Although immoderate section constabulary forces had acquired augmented world (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 bureau 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 having the accidental to signifier their skills and go much acquainted with situations that necessitate them to usage weapons, which would amended their show successful a crisis, it said.

Trained officers tin beryllium prepared for a wide scope of scenarios, specified arsenic erstwhile faced with provocations, threats, attempts to fly oregon attacks by a suspect, successful which they person to respond rapidly and appropriately, it said.

The strategy besides enables officers to simulate talking with suspects, choosing from antithetic types of constabulary weapons and deciding erstwhile to occurrence a gun, and it adjacent has a “multiplayer” 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 comes aft the decease of railway constabulary serviceman Lee Cheng-han (李承翰).

Lee was stabbed successful 2019 astatine the Taiwan Railways Administration Chiayi Station by a rider riding without a summons who had an altercation with the conductor earlier Lee was called to the scene.

Former National Police Agency director-general Chen Ja-chin (陳家欽) said successful 2020 that successful the aftermath of Lee’s death, the bureau was fixed a fund of NT$480 cardinal to procure and instal situational simulation shooting ranges astir Taiwan to bid constabulary officers to marque speedy and dependable judgements portion connected duty.

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