RAVENSWOOD, W.Va. (WSAZ) — One local police department is using a new tool to train police officers on the best way to react when danger is lurking around the corner.

The Ravenswood Police department recently received a $22,000 interactive, video simulator.

The video simulator allows officers to practice on how to react in real world situations such as bank robberies, shootings, traffic stops, domestic violence situations, and school lockdowns.

There’s more than 700 scenarios, and the instructor has the capability to alter each situation so officers never know what’s coming.

« It just gives us a tool that we can have between our training times. We can come up here. Use it and make our mistakes here. This is where we want to make our mistakes. This is what perfects us out on the streets and makes us better off in the end, » Seth Fisher, a police officer with the Ravenswood Police Department, said.

Each scenario can last anywhere from 45 seconds to a few minutes. Once it’s complete, officers can see the exact location where the bullet hit.

Ravenswood police say the simulator helps to train officers to think fast in a stressful situations.

« Police officers aren’t just given guns and weapons and told go shoot them when you think you can. They have a use of force continuum, » Ravenswood Police Chief Lance Morrison, said.

According, to Morrison, the $22,000 simulator was paid by a grant from the Jackson County Community Foundation and donations from Valtronics, S.D.R. Plastics, Constellium, Jackson County Prosecutor Kenny Skeen, Adopt-A-Cop fund, and Al Toothman, a Ravenswood community member.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department, Ripley Police, the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources and West Virginia State Police are also welcome to use the new tool.

Ravenswood Police has extended the invitation to community members, too, so people can see what it’s like to be in a police officer’s position.

If you are interested, contact the Ravenswood Police Department at (304) 273-3500.