Uitdaging in politie training

Een bekend verschijnsel in simulatie-scenario training: “The familiarization with the fixed training facilities may lead trainees to dismiss important skills such as the careful scanning of a room that they would use in an unfamiliar, real-life setting”

To this end, instructors expressed concern regarding the level of realism they are able to achieve with the resources available to them:

“For example, right now in the [training] centers that we have, we have different layouts, but they are still the same. And at one point, the person who is training is going to act like a robot. He knows the door is there. He knows he has two rooms etc.

Kleygrewe L, Oudejans RRD, Koedijk M and Hutter RIV (2022). Police Training in Practice: Organization and Delivery According to European Law Enforcement Agencies. Front. Psychol. 12:798067.