A grant helped the San Antonio police department purchase a new virtual reality training system to help with de-escalation and crisis intervention.
– The San Antonio Police Department’s new virtual reality tool gives officers a risk-free way to train on de-escalation and crisis intervention.
Nathan Sandoval, a tactics instructor with the San Antonio Police Academy, said cadets have used the APEX officer training system since this summer.“It is a real-time exchange based off of our training and experience of what officers go through in these types of situations,” explained Sandoval. The system takes up an entire classroom. Users strap on a headset and put on a backpack to be taken from the real world into a virtual simulation.“This training system allows our officers to be able to engage in virtual reality simulations that involve concepts where they can apply all of our de-escalation and crisis intervention training,” said Sandoval.“It allows civilians to be able to get a safe, yet very immersive, exposure to what officers experience out on the street,” said Sandoval.
Sandoval said the civilians who’ve been able to try it are a part of the latest Citizen Police Academy, which is a 12-week course where everyday people learn about different units within the San Antonio Police Department.Copyright 2023 by KSAT - All rights reserved.Daniela Ibarra joined the KSAT News team in July 2023. This isn’t her first time in the KSAT newsroom– the San Antonio native spent the summer of 2017 as an intern.
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