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Sheriff to get trainer

Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:19 PM CST
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K.C. Kotyk, Staff Writer

The Phelps County Commission approved on Tuesday soliciting a bid for a new, computerized, use-of-force simulator to assist in training deputies at the Phelps County Sheriff’s Department.

Soliciting bids for the new, law enforcement, training simulator will commence with an advertisement on Thursday with instructions for bidding and closing on March 13.

Phelps County Sheriff’s Department Detective Andy Davis described the use-of-force simulator as a state-of-the-art, three-dimensional, computerized, training module that will offer deputies the opportunity to train for deadly force situations, scenarios by which they had not been able to train for in the past.

The simulator, as described by Davis, is a surround-screen module with computer generated pictures that a deputy fires at with an air-charged weapon (assisted by a laser system). A belt worn by the deputy discharges a low-voltage shock whenever the computer perpetrator shoots a deputy training on the system.