New Training Simulator for Georgia Police Officers
Georgia police officers can now train for use of force and de-escalation in VR.
Deescalation training simulator for police officers and public safety professionals.
In almost every single citizen encounter, police officers are striving towards de-escalating adverse or demanding circumstances. Whether they are issuing a traffic citation or calming down a frantic parent who has lost their child or loved one, police officers are constantly engaging in de-escalation.
As society continues to increase their expectation on police officers to possess almost extraordinary levels of professionalism, patience, and tolerance, police and law enforcement officers need a training program that provides verbal and physical tools to achieve these things, while simultaneously reducing risk to the officers and those they serve.
In a recent New York State Sheriff's Association publication about improvements to local law enforcement agencies under the New York governor's executive order 203, Apex Officer was named the top provider of de-escalation training.
Apex Officer's de-escalation training program for police and law enforcement is viewed as one of the best by law enforcement agencies throughout the country. Apex Officer's virtual reality police training simulator features the latest and greatest combination of virtual reality and police / law enforcement technology:
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The purpose and focus of de-escalation training is to improve the response of officers to incidents that involve persons in crisis, who are behaving erratically, emphasizing that public and officer safety are at the heart of this training process.
Peace officers must understand how the principles of de-escalation can provide effective tools during contacts with the Public and result in improved decision-making, reduction in situational intensity, and outcomes with greater voluntary compliance.
The main learning objective of de-escalation training is to provide police officers with an organized way of making decisions about how they will act in any situation, including situations that may involve uses of force.
According to California Post, De-escalation is the process of using strategies and techniques intended to decrease the intensity of the situation.
Deescalation training teaches officers to slow down, create space, and use communication techniques to defuse a potentially dangerous situation. De-escalation training provides officers with strategies to calmly deal with people who are experiencing mental and emotional crises.
Tactical Deescalation involves the use of techniques to reduce the intensity of an encounter with a suspect and enable an officer to have additional options to gain voluntary compliance or mitigate the need to use a higher level of force while maintaining control of the situation.
Some examples of de-escalation training techniques include: slowing down an encounter, being compassionate, and using discretion to the officer's advantage.
Successfully deescalating a situation is the result of a combination of communication, empathy, instinct, and sound officer safety tactics. The philosophy behind the training is that officers need to take every opportunity to slow down a situation when possible. Apex Officer’s deescalation training program includes ways to improve communication skills, discussion of how to assess a subject's situation, how to know when you need backup, and proven officer safety tactics.
A number of studies have shown that citizens base their perceptions of police officers off their last encounter with an officer. By practicing proper deescalation techniques, individual police officers will reduce their chances of being assaulted, mitigate their risk of being sued, and become more effective at their job.
Police officers who develop proper deescalation skills and techniques, apply them when appropriate, and mitigate the need to use force will see improved job performance and increase their chances of being promoted.
De-escalation training for police officers is becoming more common every year. Although police officers have gone through deescalation training in the past, a number of states are mandating refresher and updated training for in-service officers. We created a full list of de-escalation training requirements for police officers.
One of the most important aspects of any training simulation is the quality of the content. We work closely with state and federal governing agencies like the Department of Justice, Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and our police and law enforcement clients to ensure our training content is superior in quality, realism, immersion, and relevance. We also employ subject matter experts to guide the development of our law enforcement systems and scenarios. With their help, our world-class team of software developers create intense, realistic scenarios, which are displayed using the best virtual reality technology.
As society continues to increase their expectation on police officers to possess almost extraordinary levels of professionalism, patience, and tolerance, police and law enforcement officers need a training program that provides verbal and physical tools to achieve these things, while simultaneously reducing risk to the officers and those they serve.