Cadets at the police academy in Cedar Falls, Iowa, first have to obtain a two- or four-year degree in criminal justice or police science before entering the 11-week training course. That’s when the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando police have a new training program that immerses officers into different scenarios with the public. This comes as police departments are in the spotlight across the country.

Colorado police departments are beginning to use the new frontier of technology to better train their officers. The Colorado School of Mines Police Department was one of the first in the nation to ...

Axon’s new autism empathy VR training allows trainees to be fully immersed in the scene from both the officer’s perspective, and the perspective of the person in crisis. At its fifth annual Axon ...

In the wake of Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke’s second-degree murder conviction for his on-duty fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, Park Ridge police officers and department ...

WHEATFIELD | A nurse walks into a hospital room and pulls a gun from beneath a bundle of blankets, points it at you and shoots. A driver is pulled over during a police traffic stop, makes a sudden ...

County officials broke ground Thursday on a $12 million police training village at Nassau County Community College with model buildings and streets where they can practice responses to real-life ...

(CNN) — Americans alive today have never lived in a country without police. But, sparked by the death of yet another black man at the hands of police, there’s a growing movement to create a ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A police department in western Michigan wants to include scenarios involving children as part of its firearm training simulator. Plans by the Grand Rapids Police Department ...

For the second year in a row, a group of local high school students voluntarily gave up sleeping in for a week during summer break, instead enjoying the rigors and learning opportunities offered by ...