VR coming soon to Crisp deputies
Crisp County is one of the 46 Georgia counties to receive a grant from Governor Kemp’s Law Enforcement Training Grant Program
CORDELE, GA – Another new first is coming soon to the Crisp County Sheriff’s Office in the Sheriff Billy Hancock era.
Thursday, the department revealed it will be one of the recipients of Gov. Kemp’s $5.6 million grant for in Law Enforcement Training Programs.
The Crisp County Sheriff’s Office is to be awarded $69,400 for an Apex Officer Training Simulator.
The Apex Officer System provides interactive testing and assessment and immersive, hands-on scenario-based exercises with detailed debriefing and after-action reviews.
The system is designed to increase knowledge, skills, and confidence in a safe, challenging, interactive, and engaging environment.
Crisp County Sheriff’s Office purchase of the Apex Officer Training Simulator through grant funding will allow officers sworn/detention within Crisp County and many surrounding agencies to be trained with immersive, hands-on scenario-based exercises, utilizing virtual reality technology.
“We are grateful to be selected for this grant as this funding will help provide training resources at no cost to our taxpayers,” says Sheriff Billy Hancock, who adds he hopes to have the new training regimen up and running by summer.
