Warren County Trains Through High-Repetition Virtual Reality From Day One

Establishing non-lethal response as a foundational layer of proactive, lawful control enabling earlier intervention, aimed to reduce injury and safer outcomes before encounters escalate

MIAMI, Jan. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wrap Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: WRAP) (“Wrap” or the “Company”), a global leader in non-lethal response and public-safety technology, today announced that the Warren County Sheriff’s Office has deployed the WRAP Reality immersive virtual reality (VR) training system as a foundational component of its recruit training, field training, and ongoing professional development programs.

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office has embedded WRAP Reality across the entire training lifecycle, from pre academy onboarding and firearms fundamentals to scenario-based decision making, report writing, and Field Training Officer remediation, establishing virtual reality as a primary environment for building repetition before officers face real world consequences.

“We start recruits in virtual reality on day one,” said Chris Shelton, Training Director for the Warren County Sheriff’s Office. “Before they ever step onto the range or into the field, they are getting repetitions and learning how to perceive threats, communicate effectively, manage distance, and make decisions under stress. We want them to fail here, learn here, and succeed on the street, because failure in the real world carries real consequences.”

The department views immersive virtual reality training as the non-lethal equivalent of dry fire in firearms training. Just as dry fire isolates and perfects shooting fundamentals without recoil or risk, the department believes virtual reality training allows officers to rehearse perception, timing, movement, verbalization, and decision making without the danger of real world injury or escalation. By removing irreversible consequences while preserving cognitive realism such as stress, ambiguity, distance collapse, and human behavior, officers have the opportunity to build correct habits before pressure peaks.

Through WRAP Reality, officers repeatedly practice non-lethal fundamentals such as distance management, positioning, balance, verbal engagement, and early intervention timing in a controlled, repeatable environment. These repetitions have the potential to reinforce lawful and proportional responses and help officers act earlier, before encounters escalate to contact distance where injuries and fatalities are most likely to occur.