Providence police to use virtual reality to train officers - WLNE-TV (ABC6)

This is simply a record photograph of a taser. (WLNE)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Providence constabulary said Wednesday that caller grooming for officers volition see virtual world and taser stimulator scenarios.

“Providence constabulary are the archetypal and lone section successful Rhode Island and largest section successful New England to utilize this caller technology,” said Lindsay Lague, spokesperson for the Providence Police Department.

The instrumentality was released by Axon Technologies successful May.

Providence constabulary is besides the lone section successful Rhode Island to usage body-worn cameras passim the ranks of its full department, Lague added.

During a property league Wednesday, constabulary volition show however the caller grooming volition work.

According to Lague, the virtual world exertion volition let officers to signifier a scope of real-life scenarios:

• Scenario-based grooming focusing connected intelligence unwellness and substance abuse
• Academy grooming that allows instructors to delegate officers a web-based grooming that tin beryllium performed astatine immoderate clip and location, specified arsenic responding to a telephone for home violence
• Simulator grooming for some firearms and the newest and astir precocious Taser that volition beryllium issued to the constabulary section successful November

No further accusation was instantly released.