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A wide variety of new law enforcement products were on display at the annual IACP show.
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Attendees at this year’s International Association of Chiefs Of Police exposition saw a wide variety of new products for law enforcement operations and training.
Read More →Simulators are no longer just firearms practice for officers. The provided courses can teach duty to intervene, de-escalation, dealing with mental health calls, even facing infectious diseases, or interacting with individuals on the autism spectrum.
Read More →Nothing is exactly the same as being in an incident on the street, but today’s use-of-force judgment training simulators are getting darn close. And the more experience law enforcement officers have with split-second decision-making in a realistic training setting, the better they’ll be at making the right call on duty.
Read More →L-3 MPRI has launched the 390v6 judgmental shoot/no-shoot firearm training simulator. The 390v6 delivers portable, deployable, untethered firearm training in a risk-free environment.
Read More →The show floor of this year's International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference held in Chicago, Oct. 25-27, again was dominated by body-worn cameras and related software and hardware.
Read More →Even though I knew the virtual reality patrol car was not actually there, I instinctively walked around its visual representation and not through it.
Read More →Virtual reality and augmented reality technology are now being incorporated into simulator training and may one day replace lectures in classrooms, in-service and roll-call reminders, and force-on-force scenarios.
Read More →Anyone who has ever watched “Star Trek: The Next Generation”—that’s the one with Picard, not Kirk—has probably noticed a special room on the Enterprise called the “Holo-Deck.” The Holo-Deck uses holograms, transporters, replicators, and other unlikely science-fiction technologies to create an immersive virtual reality that can be used by the Enterprise crew for both recreation and ultra-realistic training.
Read More →VirTra's patent-pending Threat-Fire device safely simulates the pain of hostile return fire with a 300-millisecond electric stun (adjustable to 2.5 seconds). Enemies often try to use the element of surprise and this training accessory is being used worldwide to better prepare trainees. The Threat-Fire II is a clip-on return fire simulator, similar in function to the Threat-Fire belt. However, the Threat-Fire II is designed to clip onto an officer's duty belt for maximum efficiency.
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