TOP: Gianna Espinoza (right) holds a gun on a suspected car thief during a virtual, simulated police situation inside the Public Safety Institute on the Arizona Western College main campus during Friday’s final day of the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Department-hosted CTE Experience Week. BOTTOM LEFT: Yuma Police Department Capt. Steve Suho talks to those enrolled in the three-hour police academy. BOTTOM RIGHT: YPD officer Kyle Dandoy (right) talks with police academy students (from left) Luis Vizcarra, Leticia Tagaban and Jennifer Tagaban about how to use a virtual simulator hand gun.
Participants of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Experience Week were put through a three-hour police academy Friday inside the Public Safety Institute at the Arizona Western College main campus. The academy included time in the VirTra simulator, performing interactive tactical firearm training. Earlier in the week, participants in the CTE Experience received instruction in profiling techniques utilized by law enforcement to determine when someone is lying to you; received instruction in woodworking and how to properly sculpt a masterpiece with a carving tool and their hands; received instruction in CPR techniques for saving the lives of adults, adolescents and infants, with participants receiving CPR certificates; and received instruction in the benefits of massage and how it can affect you.
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ABOVE: Yuma Police Department Lt. Claudia Leyva (left) instructs student Luis Vizcarra inside the VirTra simulator.
Yuma Police Department Lt. Claudia Leyva (left) instructs student Rysalynn Richey inside the VirTra simulator.
Yuma Police Department officer and academy instructor Kyle Dandoy talks to students about the VirTra virtual simulator.
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Yuma Police Department Lt. Claudia Leyva (left), who is also an instructor at the Public Safety Institute, works with student Leticia Tagaban inside the VirTra simulator.
Yuma Police Department officer and academy instructor Kyle Dandoy holds the weapon used in the VirTra virtual simulator.
Jennifer Tagaban (second from right) makes a cell phone video of her mother Leticia Tagaban participating in a simulated police situation inside the VirTra simulator. Yuma Police Department Lt. Claudia Leyva (right) and YPD officer Kyle Dandoy (left) observe.
LEFT: Jade Brewer (left) participates in a simulated police situation inside the VirTra simulator, in which two men are reported to be acting suspiciously in a parking lot.
There are more than 200 simulated police situations in the VirTra virtual simulator.
Yuma Police Department officer and academy instructor Kyle Dandoy talks with students outside the VirTra virtual simulator.
Yuma Police Department Lt. Claudia Leyva talks with students outside the VirTra simulator.