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IACP and Law Enforcement Explorers Enjoy MPRI Competition
(August 12, 2004)--
The Law Enforcement "Explorers" program is a worksite-based program for youths 14 to 20 years of age interested in the field of Law Enforcement. Members of the "Explorers" obtain real life law enforcement experiences that help young people mature and build character, life skills, citizenship, and leadership skills. To that end, "Explorers" receive law enforcement training in everything from community service and crime prevention to drug abuse prevention and firearms training.
To help improve the "Explorers" program, to honor its members, and to have members compete in individual competitions, every two years the International Association Chiefs of Police (IACP) holds the Law Enforcement Explorer Conference. Held July 19-24 at Georgia Tech University, this year an estimated 3,500 "Explorers" attended the five-dayevent.
MPRI was also one of the participating vendors at the event and set up a shot grouping competition in which young Explorers were offered the opportunity to display their marksmanship skills. Using a BEAMHIT DA Glock pistol with LT-100 laser transmitters and a BEAMHIT TR-900 computerized target, each shooter had 5 practice shots and then 10 shots for record. Each 10 shot group was measured for shot dispersion, and the shooter with the tightest shot group won. The best shot group for the 1000 participating Explorers was 11mm., shot by Jeremy Brandenburg of the South San Francisco PD Explorer Post 850. Kevin Morton, also from the South San Francisco PD Explorer Post 850, came in second with a group size of 18mm.
Use of the LMTS (Laser Marksmanship Training Systems) are not new to the "Explorers" program. Many police departments across the country have been using the LMTS for recruit training and as a part of pistol training exercises for the "Explorer" program.
"We use the BEAMHIT system exactly as MPRI trained us," says Lt. Mike Rallings, Firearms Training Unit Commander for the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department. "We've run more then 500 recruits through training with the BEAMHIT system and use the same four exercise small arms training standards as the US Army.
It's saved us both time and money. It's been so successful that we've also incorporated it into our "Explorers program."
Rallings says the LMTS has allowed them to design marksmanship programs for young men and women interested in becoming police officers. "Once we got comfortable with the LMTS, we incorporated it into our "Explorers" training program. This program is designed for youths 14 to 18 interested in becoming police officers. We do premarksmanship training with them on the BEAMHIT system before they head to the livefire range. Part of the program involves shooting at competition levels with 9mm Smith and Wessons. The LMTS has greatly shortened the learning curve for all of these young shooters."
MPRI is the producer and sole supplier of the Laser Marksmanship Training Systems (LMTS), the most portable, cost-effective, state-of-the-art weapon replication systems in the world. The LMTS is an established training tool in all the US Military Services, many foreign military services, most Federal law enforcement agencies, large numbers of local, state, and international police and security organizations, and the civilian public. MPRI's LMTS is helping to train and support military personnel and activities in such adverse environments as Afghanistan, Iraq, and other environments where a cost-effective small arms training system is crucial.
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