 It's all about being prepared, and when it comes to training California's law enforcement, Cal OES is leading the way, with the best instructors and the newest technology. Officer safety and field tactics training is a week-long, hands-on course designed to prepare officers to respond to a variety of potentially life-threatening situations. But doing so in the safest way possible for everyone involved. We're doing everything we can to avoid using force. If the officers do everything correctly in these scenarios, no force is ever employed. Got under the door? California Specialized Training Institute at Cal OES puts officers through five different training situations. We're trying to more focus on building on the fundamentals they've already gotten in their everyday routine work, and just bringing about a way to make their jobs a little safer. A little bit safer by utilizing the latest technology that's meant to signal but not distract officers. The key with these is they shoot the laser beam on the front half. We use infrared, for instance, what shocks the officer if they make a mistake. Then instead of getting shot, we obviously are not shooting each other, but it's an infrared shot that goes onto a vest and you get a little shock from it. You're not shot, but you're shocked, and that gives them the feeling that, hey, I made a mistake, that could have been a bullet, I'm going to correct that situation. And with this, their new high-tech virtual range, a proctor puts officers through different scenarios. We have shots fired, we have three suspects down. With varying outcomes. Was the force that we use appropriate with her? Just like when they respond in the real world. You're kind of interacting with the simulation, so they're going to make decisions and you get outcomes that are going to be a worst-case scenario, hopefully here and not out in the field somewhere. Firearms training may bring to mind the traditional old-school shooting range, but this new range allows officers to experience scenarios the same way they could in the field. It forced me to react in a way that I would have to in real life with no other safety gear, nothing to indicate that something bad was going to happen. Cal OES continues to make investments to help ensure the lives of officers and the public are safer. Training is very expensive, but in the long run it's cheap. When you save innocent lives, your officers are well-trained. You don't have the type of mistakes we often see out there. To see more from us, visit our website news.calos.ca.gov and follow us on all of our social media platforms.