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First Uses of Virtual Reality in Policing
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Students of the Force Science Realistic De-escalation Training will recall that de-escalation is founded on the willingness and ability to see the interaction through the perspective of the person in crisis. .
Now, through Axon’s virtual reality technology, officers can quickly develop this foundational empathy by seeing, hearing, and experiencing the perspective of those in mental crisis. -
VR TECH AS A POLICE TRAINING TOOL
Training simply for the sake of training is not, in my opinion, the answer. Municipal police officers need new approaches that can better prepare them for the real-world situations they face. At the same time, training programs must address the reality that police departments have limited financial resources. -
Enter Virtual Reality Training
Virtual reality police training offers a medium between the classroom and traditional reality-based training. Trainees have the benefit of pulling all the tools and tactics together, while also building muscle memory, which results in a training retention rate similar to reality-based training. -
Police Turn to Virtual Reality for Field Training Exercises
Virtual reality training can now allow police officers to apply techniques — such as implicit bias, cultural competency, de-escalation and peer intervention — to real-life encounters in practice scenarios. -
Virtual reality: A reality for crime scene training
The nonprofit National Forensic Science Technology Center (NFSTC), partnering with the University of Tennessee (UT) Law Enforcement Innovation Center (LEIC), is making virtual reality crime scene training available to state and local law enforcement professionals for the first time. -
Measuring Presence and Performance in a Virtual Reality Police Use of Force Training Simulation Prototype (Information Source)
Scholarly Article
In this paper we describe a virtual reality training simulation designed to help police officers learn use of force policies. Our goal is to test a training simulation prototype by measuring improvements to presence and performance. If successful, this can lead to creating a full-scale virtual reality narrative training simulation. -
NYPD using VR to Train for Active Shootings and Real-life Scenarios
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The NYPD is testing virtual reality training drills for real-life scenarios that would be impossible to recreate. -
Improving Our View of the World: Police and Augmented Reality Technology
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New virtual reality training tech takes cops directly into the minds of the mentally distressed
"Is there a crisis in the policing world over this?" one expert said. "Yes." -
Evoloution of Virtual Raelity and Police Training
Many who thought VR could never replace live-fire training, have changed their thinking after it was implemented, recognizing its versatility, cost-effectiveness and the speed with which trainees can move through different programs. -
Crime Scene Evolution and Virtual Reality
Virtual reality training can never replace real, on-the-job experience, but it certainly feels more “real” than live, staged simulations. Because it creates a raw, visceral response, like a real incident, it demands that the trainee use their skills and technique to override the confusion, over-stimulation and sensory overload they’re presented with. -
Integration of Virtual Reality and Publi/Community Relations
The public's role in this solution is easier said than done, as it will require the rebuilding and strengthening of the relationship between our police and our communities, but outreach initiatives involving simulation and VR technology are a step in the right direction. -
Virtual and Augmented Reality Tech Joins the Fight against Crime
The Cave Automatic Virtual Environment comprises three screens to give a wraparound virtual experience for a growing number of exercises, including vital "golden hour" training to increase rape convictions and a virtual custody suite complete with detainees, detention officers, nurses, and lawyers. -
Effective Game-Based Training for Police Officer Decision-Making
Scholarly Article
Often, the development of virtual training environments, specifically games for training, can focus on new technology and content development but insufficiently address underlying training goals. This paper reports the result of a two-year pilot study that developed a framework for implementing low-cost, game-based, VR technology for training police officers to improve their decision-making under stress. -
Simulators the Newest Piece to Virtual Reality and Police Training
By using virtual reality (VR) simulators that place officers in consequential situations, departments are seeing significant improvements in de-escalation, decision making and better handling situations to keep both the public and the officers safe from harm. -
How do police use VR? Very well
Police training is trying hard to meet the inescapable need of preparing officers so well that they make excellent decisions in every law enforcement situation. With the help of a VR training platform, departments are noting improvements in training outcomes and have realized the longer-term benefits protecting and serving the streets.
