FATS prepares officers for danger

By SHARON GRAVES

The News-Democrat

A few weeks ago, I sat in the cold, darkened training room in Carrollton’s City Hall, watching city and county employees train on the Firearms Training Simulator program. The digital program – known as FATS – projects onto a large screen, life-like situations in which trainees must determine how to subdue a suspect.

I didn’t think that I could measure up to their training in such situations – even with “virtual” suspects.

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