Las Vegas police to get reality-based training at $35M center 5 years after deadliest US shooting
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Police officers can now get reality-based training at a new $35 million facility. five years after the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting left a total of 60 people dead.
"The training facility is being built to address both the need for collective responses to incidents like the Country Music Festival shooting on 1 October, 2017, as well as to provide training for the police department and ultimately other law enforcement agencies so that they can better respond to incidents that require deescalation, self-defense and other types of responses — in particular to active shooter situations," LVMPD Foundation Executive Director Tom Kovach told Fox News Digital. Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for FOX Business and Fox News. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
The planning for the training center, from an idea standpoint and a conceptual standpoint, however, began prior to the 2017 shooting, Kovach said.
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