Discover human performance factors that provide investigators with the knowledge, insight, skills, and abilities needed to thoroughly and completely examine all levels of force incidents.
*Subject to change, additional cities will be added in the future.
The VirTra and Force Science Institute Scholarship Program will provide 12 scholarship awards for individuals who are licensed law enforcement officers to attend one 5-Day Force Science Certification courses offered in 2021. Individuals may be nominated or can self apply for this scholarship.
The course fee of $1,650 will be paid in full by the VirTra and Force Science Institute.
Individuals who successfully complete this program will be certified as Force Science Analysts. This designation attests that the holder has been trained to recognize and articulate important psychological, biological, and physiological factors that can influence human behavior and memory in force encounters and pursuit situations.
An email notification will be sent to each award winner to select the Force Science training event they would like to attend in 2021.