Providence police to incorporate virtual reality in officer training - WPRI.com

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Providence Police Department announced Wednesday caller virtual world exertion that volition beryllium utilized to bid officers.

The interactive modules volition see Taser and handgun trainings, which volition springiness contiguous feedback to participants. The exertion volition besides let officers to signifier responding to intelligence unwellness and substance maltreatment calls, among different scenarios.

“This is real-life grooming connected however to champion interact with the assemblage and, much importantly, however to de-escalate tense situations and enactment those individuals successful situation that we woody with connected a regular basis,” Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements said.

Clements said Providence is the archetypal and lone section successful the authorities to usage the technology, which has been provided by AXON Virtual Reality Solutions Specialist.

The section has six simulation kits with 17 headsets and 15 virtual modules for officers.

The web-based grooming allows officers to implicit it from immoderate determination and astatine immoderate time, making it comparatively inexpensive and little clip consuming, according to the constabulary chief.

“It allows for america to springiness grooming connected a whim,” Clements said.

The department, according to Clements, invested $500,000 into the virtual world grooming and different exertion investments, including body-worn an licence sheet detection cameras.

Clement said the section volition commencement assigning virtual simulation grooming to officers sometime adjacent month.