The Lawrenceville City Council recently approved a plan presented by the police department to purchase 105 subscriptions to Virtual Academy. For this first year, the $4,725 purchase will be funded by Local Asset Forfeiture or money seized as the result of a crime including drug activity.
Virtual Academy is a training management system that provides online virtual training to all employees within the department from a library of over 100 courses. Virtual Academy gives training staff better ability to track each individual’s training, create required training, post training bulletins, and create department specific training modules.
This solution addresses one of the biggest complaints from officers, having to come in on their days off for training.
The city believes implementing this technology will reduce both overtime and fatigue of officers, allowing supervisors to assign officers to selected training times while on duty, while still accomplishing annual departmental and state requirements.
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