Police Training News & Articles

Fosters.com ROCHESTER, N.H. — It may look like a video game, but the state-of-the-art simulator being used by local law enforcement helps keep officers safe and improves decision making, said Police ...

By PoliceOne Staff WALNUT, Calif. — A pioneer of scenario-based police training products died before the holidays, PoliceOne learned Monday.The long life of Trenton, N.J., native Guido J. Tanzini ...

By Erin HicksIf you still use rubber or plastic shanks in your training classes, you are missing a very important element that's never absent in a real-life tactical situation: stress.When you're being ...

Police officers in Aurora are using a new training simulator ...

Over the past decade and a half, VirTra has grown in size and introduced some truly innovative solutions for law enforcement and military firearms training. ...

After nearly 3 decades in law enforcement, Jeffry Johnson still remembers vividly a "hellacious" physical fight for his life as a young cop. "I was called to a scene where a guy was banging ...

Two expert witnesses with Force Science backgrounds are believed to have been influential in a jury’s recent decision to reject a murder conviction of a former transit officer accused of deliberately ...

The first comprehensive nationwide survey of mistaken-identity, "friendly fire" fatalities in law enforcement has been completed by a governor's task force in New York, unearthing a wealth of ...

In recent years, much of the focus for treating post-traumatic stress disorder has centered on traditional “talk therapy” and newer abatement techniques like EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization ...

By W. Lee Fjelstad, Vice President, Verbal Judo Institute A child’s mind is fertile ground. What will they grow within it? Will they think thoughts of what they will someday become; possibly cultivate ...

When I was in junior high school, we used to have to watch those corny “gateway drug” educational films. Do you remember those?They followed a similar plot: Some clean-cut teenage boy would ...

Note: This excerpt is taken from Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion by Dr. George Thompson. For more info on this or any of Doc’s other books, visit http://www.verbaljudo.com/online-store.html.If ...

Although there are 53 HYDRA training centers in the world, this is the first one operating in the U.S. ...

By Kisty Fairchild, PoliceOne ContributorOn the night of Feb. 7, Officer Sean Shelton with the Crenshaw (MS) Police Department received a call that would forever change the way he does his job. It would ...

I don't want to paint a bleak picture, but agencies from coast to coast do not have their emphasis on training. Their emphasis is trying to maintain staffing levels in a shaky economy. The good news is ...

PoliceOne is focusing on news and information about Police Training Products throughout the month of April 2010. Check out some of the latest products available today. IES Interactive ...

The Los Angeles Police Department has announced a new training system that will guide commanding officers during national disasters and emergencies. According to the LAPD press release, the state-of-the art training suite is “designed to test and hone decision-making skills in realistic critical-incident scenarios ranging from a terrorist attack to an earthquake.” ...

A new look at why officers often fire controversial “extra” shots after a threat has ended has been published by an independent shooting reconstructionist and certified Force Science analyst.Researcher ...

Theories abound about how best to tell if a suspect is lying to you, short of hooking him up to a polygraph. But based on recently reported experiments, a Force Science advisor thinks one of the best ways ...