To expand the professionalization of the Municipal Police Directorate staff, the City Council carried out the “virtual training and diagnosis workshop on issues of action protocols for operational personnel of the corporation”.
This type of action allows Merida to continue consolidating the Municipal Police in a more professional police training model, with officers better prepared and trained for the application of protocols and greater proximity to society.
“As authorities we have to give you the necessary tools so that you can, before the citizens, fully carry out your work as preventive and social proximity police officers in full compliance with the law,” said Alejandro Ruz Castro, Mayor of Merida.
During his visit to the workshop, which was held in the portrait room of the “Olimpo” Cultural Center, Ruz Castro recognized the work carried out by the Municipal Police to keep Mérida as one of the safest cities in the country and that translates into good citizen qualification.
«An indicator that influences Mérida to maintain its high levels of security is the trust that citizens have in their police corporations, that is the best proof that we have a solid, reliable public security institution, with closeness and with results that translate into security and social peace in Mérida,” the mayor stated.
Ruz Castro thanked the company “Virtus” for delivering this workshop, as well as for developing youth prevention programs to combat alcohol and drug abuse, and with whom the Merida Municipal Police Department had the opportunity to carry out actions since last year.
The virtual training and diagnosis workshop on action protocols was divided into four activation modules:
- The Umberto Eco Module aimed to align self-concept on vocation as the best solution for the prevention of risk behaviors.
- The Empathy Module was responsible for explaining the subjectivity of others.
- The Experience Module was carried out with a driving simulator and crash simulator.
- The Diagnostic Module, carried out in virtual reality mounted on a video game to obtain data for prevention.
Finally, the program «Voy al volante. Conduzco a mi futuro» (I’m on the steering wheel driving toward my Future) was presented. This program takes up the importance of developing actions based on statistical information and to this end provides a new survey model of the student population through a virtual reality experience, with a story recorded with local characters, in local settings, and with an appropriate plot. to the reality of the population in which it has been developed.
The experience allows young people to become aware and reflect on the result of their decision-making, interacting with the development of history, and creates a starting point for subsequent work in the classroom by the school authorities, in connection with the public security and crime prevention authorities.
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