It looks like an over-sized video game…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/03/useofforce1.mp3|titles=useofforce1]But it’s purpose is deadly real for the Huron Police Department…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/03/useofforce2.mp3|titles=useofforce2]Sargent Brandon Neitzert with the Huron Police Department says the T-I Training Use of Force Simulator is not only extremely interactive, but authentic…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/03/useofforce3.mp3|titles=useofforce3]The simulator is currently set up in the Huron City Commission room and the department is a looking for a permanent location. One possible location may be in the renovated Campus Center taking shape at Central Park. Nietzert says an official training session has not been conducted but the officers who have worked with it give it a thumbs up…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/03/useofforce4.mp3|titles=useofforce4]Neitzert himself is impressed with the system…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/03/useofforce5.mp3|titles=useofforce5]The simulator system is approximately 75-thousand dollars but grant funding from the Department of Homeland Security obtained through the Beadle County Emergency Management office helped the Huron Police Department obtain the simulator. Officers Mark Johnson and Derek Layher spent time at the company’s Colorado headquarters becoming certified instructors on the unit. Aberdeen is the only other police department in South Dakota to have such a training simulator. Video of News Director Zach Nelson trying the simulator is posed on the Performance Radio News Page on Facebook.