TORONTO, Nov. 27, 2019 /CNW/ -- Axon (Nasdaq: AAXN), the
global leader in connected public safety technologies, and its
subsidiary Axon Public Safety Canada Inc., today announced the
Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) as the first law enforcement
agency in Canada to partner with
Axon for its virtual reality (VR) empathy training program through
Axon Academy, a network of online and in-person training for law
enforcement. HRPS has received 20 Oculus Go headsets to begin
training their internal teams and will officially launch their
program in the first quarter of 2020.
HRPS is deploying Axon's VR empathy-based training in an effort
to increase community safety following an increasing number of
mental health calls seen in the region. The program provides
officers with an immersive training experience where trainees can
put themselves in the shoes of both the officer responding to the
scene and the person in crisis. With this deployment, HRPS will
have access to three different VR training scenarios that Axon
currently offers: autism, schizophrenia and suicide empathy
training. The agency will also gain access to future training
scenarios as they are developed.
"Axon's innovative empathy-based training will complement our
existing training program and further enable our frontline officers
to manage and de-escalate potentially high-stakes interactions,"
says Deputy Chief Roger Wilkie, the
Halton Regional Police Service. "This partnership with Axon will
ultimately serve to bolster community safety and well-being."
Axon's empathy development training is currently available to
law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada. For more information on the program or
to contact the team, please visit
https://www.axon.com/training.
About Axon
Axon is a global network of devices, apps, training and people
that helps public safety personnel become smarter and safer. With a
mission of protecting life, our technologies give customers the
confidence, focus and time they need to protect their communities.
Our products impact every aspect of a public safety officer's
day-to-day experience.
We work hard for those who put themselves in harm's way for all
of us. To date, there are more than 428,600 software seats booked
on the Axon network around the world and more than 224,000 lives
have been saved with the Axon network of devices, apps, training
and people. Learn more at https://ca.axon.com/.
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