The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office has achieved the National Certification Program Seal of Excellence from the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement for a new training course, Interaction and Perception.
The first course of its kind nationally, Interaction and Perception was developed by Bryan Vila, professor of criminology and criminal, and his team at Washington State University with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense. The goal was to make personnel into “good strangers” who can appropriately assess a situation and adapt in order to socially engage in any given circumstance.
Spokane Sherriff’s training will combine two programs into one: Strategic Interaction and Implicit Bias Training.