{"id":1630,"date":"2025-09-15T16:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:46:45","slug":"waterville-police-get-virtual-lessons-in-tough-situations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/waterville-police-get-virtual-lessons-in-tough-situations\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterville police get virtual lessons in tough situations"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a67ffe3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-featured-image elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7a67ffe3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-featured-image.default\">\n<h3 class=\"elementor-widget-container\">Waterville police get virtual lessons in tough situations<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c80fbee elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info\" data-id=\"5c80fbee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-info.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<ul class=\"elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info\">\n<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-85ee600 elementor-inline-item\"><span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-date\"><time>June 7, 2016<\/time><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12e26ad6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"12e26ad6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>New Laser Shot Firearms Training System will let them practice handling situations in which they may have to use their guns, Amy Calder writes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9688\" title=\"Waterville police get virtual lessons in tough situations 1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lasershot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Waterville.png?resize=700%2C387&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lasershot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Waterville.png?w=700&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lasershot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Waterville.png?resize=300%2C166&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lasershot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Waterville.png?resize=370%2C205&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 370w\" alt=\"Waterville Laser Shot Simulations\" width=\"642\" height=\"355\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The silver pickup truck was stopped on the side of the road, as Waterville\u2019s deputy police chief, Charles Rumsey,<br \/>\napproached the driver\u2019s side door.<\/p>\n<p>Rumsey had stopped the truck for speeding \u2014 going 43 in a 25 mph zone.<br \/>\n\u201cHello there,\u201d Rumsey said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, a man, was agitated and loud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys are always pulling me over,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also was arguing with a woman in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>She was chastising him for driving too fast; he kept telling her to be quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSir, hold on, please,\u201d Rumsey interjected.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, ignoring Rumsey\u2019s commands to show his hands, reached into the cab for something.<\/p>\n<p>What? The vehicle registration or a handgun?<\/p>\n<p>At that point, and quickly, Rumsey had decisions to make.<\/p>\n<p>Things happened fast. The angry man thrust his hand out the window toward Rumsey, and Rumsey fired at what turned out to be a slip of paper \u2014 the vehicle registration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just shot the registration out of his hand,\u201d Rumsey said.<\/p>\n<p>This situation was not real and did not occur on a Waterville street, but in the confines of the training room at Waterville Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Rumsey was demonstrating the department\u2019s new Laser Shot Firearms Training System, which enables police officers to train with firearms in a setting closely resembling real-live situations instead of at a traditional firing range. Use of force, firearms drills and skill building are part of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Lincoln Ryder, a department firearms instructor, operated the computer system that orchestrated the scenarios Rumsey took part in.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic stop was illustrated using actors who appeared on a large screen via a multimedia projector and infrared ceiling cameras in the police training room. Rumsey used modified handguns and a rifle that do not fire actual bullets, but infrared laser \u201cbullets\u201d not visible to officers but seen by the camera system. The officer firing the gun feels the same sensation as he would if firing actual bullets.<\/p>\n<p>Ryder was able to change the scenarios to produce different outcomes during the traffic stop. For instance, in one variation, the driver pulled a knife on Rumsey. In another, Ryder changed the outcome based on how the officer handled the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The police department received a $10,000 training grant from Maine Municipal Association to buy the $20,000 system from Laser Shot Inc., of Stafford, Texas, and the City Council late last year approved spending $10,000 more from MMA\u2019s Property Casualty and Workers Compensation programs reimbursement. Since the MMA\u2019s focus was regional training, the Waterville department is training not only its own officers, but those from other departments in District 4, which includes all of Kennebec County and part of Somerset. Those departments pay a fee for the training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a great tool,\u201d Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been able to start training all our officers and get a real foundation about where they are with skill level, accuracy, reaction time, threat assessment. We can also gauge their verbalization work at a traffic stop or other scenario. It\u2019s an opportunity to evaluate their decision-making skills. When you look at all the police-involved shootings in the country in the last couple of years, which have faced great criticism, we want to make sure we train our officers in threat assessment. Is it a good time to draw a weapon? Is it not a good time? It provides all that, where we can actually sit back and watch the officer, step-by-step, during a high-risk traffic stop or domestic violence situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The system enables officers to train at any hour of the day or night and in any weather, decreases overtime expenses and lowers ammunition costs. It also is less time-consuming than training at a firearms range, where officers must drive to the range, set up equipment and load firearms. It also presents a more real-life threat to officers, according to Ryder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can turn an hour of available shift time into valuable training,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ryder was familiar with the system and researched it further before Waterville decided to buy it, Massey said.<\/p>\n<p>In another training scenario, Rumsey posed as an officer covering for his partner who responded to a report of a fight over a woman at a bar. When the officers arrived, a man in the bar was holding a gun to another man\u2019s head. Rumsey\u2019s partner headed into the bar and commanded the agitated man to put down his gun. He ignored the command, and Rumsey fired, hitting the suspect, who dropped to the floor. The hostage fled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe go through the scenarios, and at the end, we talk about why the officer did what he did, we discuss what he did well and what he might do differently next time,\u201d Ryder said. \u201cThis format is very flexible and allows us to do a lot of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massey said the system evaluates an officer\u2019s skills and sends a report back to his police department, detailing what skills he shows proficiency in and where he needs improvement and further training. That officer may return to the Waterville department for more training.<\/p>\n<p>Ryder presented Rumsey situations in which he was asked to fire a certain number of rounds in so many seconds at targets that popped up on the screen. Those targets were men and women holding a variety of items including coffee mugs and handguns and Rumsey was instructed to shoot those who posed a deadly threat.<\/p>\n<p>He also was instructed to fire at targets from standing, kneeling and prone positions and from behind barriers, as well as from stances where his back was to the screen and he had to turn quickly, pull his pistol from the holster, determine what characters on the screen were threats and then fire at them.<\/p>\n<p>Rumsey is a good shot, by the way, hitting all but one target in the couple of hours I watched the system operate.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not every day we get a bird\u2019s eye view into how police officers train, and I must say I found the new firearms training system impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Massey says it is one of a very few being used in the state, and the smaller the department, the less likely money and manpower are available for such a program.<\/p>\n<p>Waterville has a history of being in the forefront when it comes to implementing innovative programs, including Are You OK?, which checks daily on people who are homebound, and the Wanderers Database, which maintains information about those who tend to wander and helps emergency workers locate them more easily and quickly if they do.<\/p>\n<p>The laser shot firearms program is yet another example of Waterville\u2019s launching a new system designed to help keep the public \u2014 and officers \u2014 safe.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Calder has been a Morning Sentinel reporter 27 years. Her column appears here Mondays. 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Dennis Taylor, the National Sales Manager for Law Enforcement and Corrections for Lasershot Simulations, joined them to discuss their platform and how they will be leveraging it further to expand this training. Recently the\u00a0Okaloosa County Sheriff\u2019s Office\u00a0had a tragic...","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sectors","tag-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasershot.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}