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Some of our main goals for this facility is when these trooper trainees come here and
when they graduate, they will have the skills that they need in the real world. So when
they're driving, when they get in some emergency pursuit situations they feel comfortable that
they have received the training they need so they can do the job as they should be.
The facility is sort of broken up into sections so to speak. We have the high-speed pursuit
course, we have the skid pan, we have the urban course, and of course, we have the large
parking area where we can set up cones and they can do all kinds of things with that.
We can have people on each section at the same time using each facility. We have a very
nice skid pan is what we call it. Basically polished concrete that we can flood with water
and pretty much duplicate exactly what you would experience driving on ice. We have a
high-speed course to train on because as you know there can be one person out there in
some pretty high-speed pursuits and we have exit- and on-ramps just like you would see
on an interstate.
Another feature that we've put here at the site is an urban course, which is more like
a city block layout. It has a five-point intersection, it has a railroad crossing, it has various
off-set alleyways, cul-de-sacs.
An element that we also incorporated into this project was trying almost getting a connectivity
between the various features that they could go from the interstate roads, into the rural
setting, into the precision courses, into the skid pans, into the urban features since
they are all inner-connected.
We need to make sure that we know where everybody, what section of the track they're using. The
observation tower is sort of our central control facility when we are actually using the track
to communicate with them and that's where the dispatch will be is at the observation
tower.
We have our own garage where we can actually do some minor repairs to these vehicles. We
have our own fueling station here. They're quite impressed with the track and support
facilities, the administrative building. Everyone is quite pleased with what we have. We feel
very fortunate to have it.