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VirTra Training Essential For Not Only Police Officers But Also The Public

For police officers, first responders, and Emergency Medical teams, communication can make all the difference in the world as far as whether they can control a situation or even make a bad situation, less dangerous. That’s why they go through training and studying and even retraining to make sure that officers are as ready as they can be for any situation that comes their way. One way that they train is through a VirTra, a 360 projected simulator that based off the decisions you make can “change the outcome” so as you react, it reacts. 

 

Rafael Gutierrez, Director of Training for the Public Safety Training Foundation or PSTF says that the VirTra allows the public to firsthand experience the types of situations police train for and may encounter on the job. You can bring recruits in using the VirTra and see how they do and then have them go through at the end to see how far they’ve come.

 

 

Gutierrez says there are three different VirTra’s and they all serve very different purposes. Two of them are used for law enforcement but the third one is for the public.

 

The hope is that this can reach members of the public to give them a different perspective of what law enforcement is like.

 

 

At the end of the day Gutierrez says it’s about communication, and it’s great to have new technology that can help train better.

 

 

Gutierrez says that he wants people to remember that law enforcement in many cases only has a split second to make a decision, so it’s really easy to second guess something, especially when you are only given a chance to rewatch it many times. 

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