New technology introduced for police to train for active shooter situations

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BELMONT, Calif. (KRON) – Utilizing a virtual fact simulator, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Workplace shown to KRON4 a circumstance in which an lively shooter was inside a courthouse at the sheriff’s training facility in Belmont. Sheriff Carlos Bolanos talked about what he aims to achieve by putting deputies as a result of this virtual-truth-based instruction.

“I believe that it is real looking teaching that will deliver my deputies with the potential to go in and efficiently and right away neutralize any threat that endangers the basic safety of the public,” he said. 

The personal computer system is designed by a company named Virtra, and it simulates both equally violent and non-violent scenarios

“As very well as dealing with people going through a mental health disaster, there’s eventualities that train de-escalation,” Bolanos explained. 

KRON4 questioned Bolanos if there was teaching made available to make certain that deputies act on the coaching they obtain when they encounter an active shooter.

“Yes,” Bolanos verified. “Ever due to the fact Columbine, law enforcement improved their strategies. We utilized to hold out and phase and hold out for the tactical groups to arrive. But right after Columbine, all that coaching modified to quickly spouse up with the initially obtainable regulation enforcement officer that comes on scene, and go in and deal with that risk.”

About the subsequent a number of months, each individual of San Mateo County’s 400 deputies will go through their initial spherical of schooling in the simulator. Bolanos claimed the instruction will then keep on on an yearly basis, with deputies heading through the schooling at minimum 3 situations for every calendar year.