Innovative web app enhances sheriff recruits’ job-readiness

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As public safety professions are anchored in the real world, so too is the training provided at JIBC.

To ensure our recruits and students are job-ready, JIBC instructors need to go beyond classrooms and textbooks, adding scenario training to the mix and now, an online training tool for sheriff recruits.

“We found sheriff recruits would come to the training program and they didn’t have the context of the courthouse,” said Jane Dean, Program Manager, Corrections & Court Services Division at JIBC. “The instructors would have to say, ‘imagine a courtroom.’”