Training In Action

What do you think, construction workers who like to wear masks?

 Nope, it's a mock scenario training day at the state police academy for the police cadets.  That guy there on the left?  That's my hubby (above.) 

Jed has long been involved with carrying out police training for many years, either for his own police department, new police cadets at the state academy or university programs, or other police agencies.  (Obviously he isn't doing any police stuff now, just all military training for the next year.)

Jed is the one of the graders that evaluates each cadet on their tactics and decision making skills during scenarios played out by other police officers. 

This training happened earlier this year, but I am just seeing these for the first time.   Which is why they are now just being posted.

Why all the masks?

 The cadets use air soft guns during the training so if a scenario ends up involving a "need to shoot" situation, the officers can actually shoot a dangerous suspect with paint balls or sometimes even a suspect will have a weapon and fire on the officers.

Even the graders use masks.

From the looks of this photo...this could be a boyfriend/husband beating on his girl.  This officer decides to take action.

Looks like everyone is playing Ring-Around-the-Rosie here and they all fell down.

It's fun to look at these pictures...I don't usually get to see what Jed does when it comes to his police training.  I find it all very interesting to see.