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PoliceOne Roundtable: Smart police trainers use 'dumb' simulation tools Comments

Even as the capabilities of silicon-based simulators increase, our carbon-based simulators (a.k.a. trainers and role players), still need traditional 'inert' training tools. ...

Officers learn by using games

Research Notes from Informa Systems, Inc. Have you ever thought that Angry Birds could be used to help learning? Informa Systems is putting this theory to the test and is using games to improve learning ...

Website helps marginal report writers Comments

Few colleges and even fewer high schools do an adequate job of conferring basic skills in English and math onto their graduates. ...

Staying sharp: An inside look at the TASER Training Academy Comments

San Antonio, Texas, is known for many things: great Mexican food, the Alamo, and the Riverwalk to name a few. During the week of May 21st 2012, it was home to the TASER Training Academy Master Instructor ...

Tool trains Md. police for range of dangerous scenarios Video

By Mike Conneen WJLA.com Prince George's County police now have a new tool to help them train for dangerous situations. The Judgmental Enhancement Training System (JETS) will help officers train to ...

Video: Public sees how police decide to shoot, not to shoot Video

ABC15.com PHOENIX — Deciding whether to shoot or not is a challenge Arizona officers face everyday, and now regular people have a chance to experience those very same situations. The Phoenix Police ...

Online training course helps Chicago police learn Spanish

An Online Spanish course developed for NIJ equips officers with a working knowledge of Spanish that they could use at crime scenes and during interviews, traffic stops and domestic violence situations. ...

Texas cops use portable training facility for live-fire drills Video

KXAN.com ROUND ROCK, Texas — Round Rock police are training using a powerful new tool. A unique, live-fire facility allows officers to fire real bullets using their actual service weapons in realistic, ...

Video game just for cops: NH trains cops with simulators

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 ...

Pioneer of scenario-based police training products dies

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 ...

Better prepare for any attack with Shocknife

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 ...

Video: Simulator gives Colo. cops practice at split-second decisions Video

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

Tech Q&A: Brian Wardell of VirTra Systems

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. ...

The fatigue threshold: You're out of gas and the suspect is still out of control — 'a cop's worst nightmare' Comments

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 ...

Force Science explains "slips-and-capture errors" Comments

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 ultimate tragedy: what's the truth about police-on-police shootings?

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 ...

Old drugs get new uses in fighting critical-incident trauma, researchers say

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 ...

Can we help kids build a safe place? Maybe they will build their own.

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 ...

Gateway behaviors are like gateway drugs

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 ...

Know how to communicate, don't just hope for the best

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 ...