VirTra : Preparing For Difficult Situations as Law Enforcement
July 08, 2021 at 10:24 pm IST
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Posted on Jul. 8, 2021 by VirTra Inc
Sadly, the number of active threat situations within the United States has been consistently growing for more than a decade.
According to the FBI, 277 active shooter incidents have occurred between 2000 and 2018, with 844 people killed. The number of incidents and casualties are staggering, but take notice that these are just active shooter incidents and do not include subjects without guns, but instead armed with explosives, knives and other methods of injuring or killing innocents.
To help officers prepare for these terrible instances, VirTra created two modules designed to educate officers on how to best handle an active threat, protect civilians and minimize loss. These curricula, which fall under the Active Threat / Active Killer (ATAK) program, consist of two modules and soon to be three.
In total, this will be 11 hours of nationally-certified V-VICTA™ coursework, which comes free on all law enforcement training simulators. To ease the instructor's workload, this V-VICTA curricula include: class rosters, pre and post-tests, presentations, corresponding video training scenarios and more.
These realistic scenarios are designed to be used alongside the coursework for maximum learning and skill building. To further help instructors, scenarios are often based on real-life events. In the case of Active Threat/Active Killer, the 1999 Combine High School Massacre was used as a foundation for a few training scenarios for officers.
Officers and trainees will, throughout all modules, review the history of ATAK events and learn lessons from past police response.
For more information on V-VICTA and how it can provide effective training for your agency, please contact a VirTra specialist.
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VirTra, Inc. is a provider of judgmental use of force training simulators and firearms training simulators for the law enforcement, military, and commercial markets. The Company's patented technologies, software, and scenarios provide intense training for de-escalation, judgmental use-of-force, marksmanship and related training that mimics real-world situations. Its firearms training simulator allows marksmanship and realistic scenario-based training to take place on a daily basis without the need for a shooting range, protective equipment, role players, safety officers, or a scenario-based training site. It has developed a range of simulation training including capabilities such as multiscreen, video-based scenarios, scenario authoring ability, superior training scenarios, the patented Threat-Fire shoot-back system, gas-powered simulated recoil weapons, and more. Its simulator products include V-300 Simulator, V-180 Simulator, V-100 Simulator & V-100 MIL, V-Author and others.