VirTra's High Risk Vehicle Stop Training is based on nationally-certified curriculum that improves officers’ skills long-term, making the information easily accessible even when the officer is overwhelmed and highly stressed. The principles taught in this high risk traffic stop training curriculum keep officers, their partners and nearby citizens safe from harm as officers learn to rely on good judgment and verbal communication. After all, half the battle is knowing how to read a scene, properly assess the situation and react accordingly with confidence—especially in dangerous and potentially life-threatening events.
The High-Risk Vehicle Stop training curriculum is nationally-certified and is designed to be used with VirTra’s science-based simulators for the best learning. With high-risk traffic stop training, instructors receive 6.5 training hours through a 37-page lesson plan, 58-slide presentation, class evaluation forms, tests, corresponding realistic video scenarios and more. These assets work in tandem to teach:
Proper verbal skills to ensure the exit of the driver and passenger(s)
Making appropriate force decisions during an HRVS
Pre-stop procedures
Officer body and vehicle positions
Clearing the vehicle
And more
After engaging in police traffic stop training classroom instruction, officers can practice their new-found skills in VirTra’s realistic simulator. VirTra offers multiple high-risk police traffic stop training scenarios that allow officers to put into practice what they have learned—helping instructors oversee skill development and minimize training scars from the get-go. In the simulator, vehicles are positioned and accurate per officer’s perspective on-screen so trainees can use real 3D props like a chair to sit as if they were actually sitting within the police cruiser. Each police traffic stop scenario has multiple branching options—such as the subject surrendering or firing their gun—which are chosen based off the trainee’s choices or instructor’s decision. This way, trainees can see the consequences of their decisions within a safe, controlled environment.
