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March 2014

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34 | I nsIgh t • M a r c h 2 0 14 w w w . i n s i g h t o n b u s i n e s s . c o m i n s i g h t o n Continuing e d u C at i o n B y N i k k i K a l l i o N ot many neighborhoods are built expecting trouble. Unless, of course, that neighborhood is a mock village constructed expressly to give future and current public safety officers a place to train for the kinds of dangerous scenarios that can happen, expected or not. "River City," aptly named aer the song in the "Music Man" that declares there's always trouble there, is one important component of Fox Valley technical College's new Public safety training Center, a project that's well under way on Outagamie County Regional Airport property. River City itself includes a drive-up bank branch, a gas station/convenience store, a hotel/motel with a bar, and two residences. ere also will be a forced- entry building, allowing sWAt officers to practice "dynamic entry." at building will include partitions inside to allow officers practice clearing a room, and those partitions will be built by FVtC construction students, says Patricia Robinson, executive dean of the college's public safety division. e training center will include classrooms, numerous instruction areas, a number of firing ranges and an emergency vehicle driving range. e facility also will include an outdoor forensic laboratory, a.k.a. a "body farm." at's right. "It is essentially a research facility as well as a training facility," Robinson says. "One of the things that happens when things decay is bugs come in – blowflies and other such things – and they do so in quite specific ways, and quite specific time frames, in terms of generations. so a death investigator or Fire away FVTC's $34.5 million public safety project includes a forensic 'body farm'

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