Explorers visit Virtra simulator

May 3, 2017

Bonners Ferry Border Patrol Explorer Post #190 held their April meeting at the Spokane Police Department, where the U.S. Border Patrol currently houses their Virtra simulator machine. This $250,000 machine is used by law enforcement all over the country to train in scenarios and situations where an officer may or may not have to shoot. Explorers were trained on using verbal commands to talk a person out of a potentially dangerous situation to responding to a school shooting and needing to make split second decisions deciding if the people in the scenario were students or a shooter. All the Explorers did a fantastic job and we are extremely thankful to the Spokane Sector Border Patrol Instructors who took the time to come in and allow us the opportunity to use their machine.