Police Training Services News & Articles

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. ...

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 ...

By Sarah Bakhtiari Suwanee Patch GWINNETT, Ga. — Earlier in February, law enforcement officers trained at the Gwinnett County Police Department to strengthen their crime investigation skills through ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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

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

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 ...

By Tim DeesThere are thousands of books, DVDs, posters and every other kind of instructional aid produced for the law enforcement market. Most of them aren’t very good. How do you cull out the losers ...

By Dave Smith Street Survival Instructor PoliceOne ColumnistOne of our most commented on points early in each Street Survival Seminar is the importance of trusting your instincts. When it doesn’t ...

Creating training with realism is the primary factor that will help build better cognitive thinking skills so when SWAT cops are subjected to actual combat they will feel that they’ve already been there and been exposed to that environment. There are several techniques you can use when training SWAT cops to achieve this, but introducing stress into all of your training is paramount. ...

What do a swimming pool, a dark room, and interrupted simulator scenarios have in common? All can be instrumental parts of innovative training that can help officers win against armed assailants, according to Chris Ghannam, president of Sark Securities Inc., an independent advanced-training organization based in Tampa, Fla., that is making its mark with unique hands-on and classroom programs for law enforcement and the military throughout the U.S. and Canada. ...

Critical analysis is nothing but the thinking that should have preceded the incident. Therefore, we use the theoretical principles (nine principles of war) to determine the facts of the situation. These principles should not be used as a checklist or as rigid external rules. They should be applied as self-evident truths. While this cannot always be completely achieved, it must remain the aim of any critical analysis. ...

We do not have to move ten feet each time we move: ten inches might be enough. The critical thing is to move off the line of attack! I’m not talking here about shooting on the move, either forward or backward. I’m talking about a simple, single step, maybe laterally, maybe aggressing forward or slightly back from an opponent. This seems, at first glance, to be a no-brainer; it’s harder to hit a moving object than a stationary one. Most of us, however, were trained in the school of “plant your feet, pick your target...” ...

Being a trainer is akin to being a sergeant, in as much as both are leaders. However, just as the title of sergeant doesn’t mean a thing if the individual bearing that title does not practice good leadership skills, the title of trainer means little if that individual does not back it up with competence and credibility. ...

The development of Internet email has been a huge boon to the passing of endless reams of jokes. Some of the jokes are pretty funny and the funniest ones of all are those that come dangerously close to the truth. One funny email about shooting makes the circuit every few months, and is worth an examination for its basis in truth. ...

Hopefully you carry a firearm off duty. You can now legally do so nationwide, thanks to President Bush signing the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act a couple years ago. Yes, the politicians — including, unfortunately, some of the police brass — in a few cites such as New York and Chicago may still give you a hassle for so doing, but think about it: why should anyone know that you are carrying a concealed handgun at all? ...