Home Team Academy Unveils High-Tech Training with VR and AI Upgrades for Enhanced Officer Preparedness

September 8, 2026
Home Team Academy Unveils High-Tech Training with VR and AI Upgrades for Enhanced Officer Preparedness
  • The enhanced training village will support repeated practice of critical drills in realistic scenarios, boosting decision-making and operational readiness.

  • An incident management simulation system will allow joint, integrated training across Home Team departments in complex scenarios.

  • The Home Team Academy (HTA) is upgrading training with a virtual shooting range, a training village featuring virtual and augmented reality, and an incident management simulation system to train officers from multiple agencies.

  • The virtual shooting range will use realistic weapon replicas, recoil, and sound to enable safe, scalable shoot-or-no-shoot decision-making practice alongside live-fire training.

  • The Home Team Gallery will open to the public in December, with booking details released in November.

  • HTA will add new facilities on campus, including an indoor running track at a new IPPT centre and a revamped seven-zone Home Team Gallery with AI avatars, updated artefacts, and multimedia game stations.

  • The revamped Gallery will feature artefacts such as a revolver smuggling case and a 1968 AK47 used in a police shoot-out, and will include AI avatars of current and former officers, including Deputy Superintendent Morton Jr William Adam.

  • To mark its 20th anniversary in 2026, upgrades aim to equip officers from the Singapore Police Force, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority, Central Narcotics Bureau, and Internal Security Department for a dynamic, digital, fast-moving threat environment.

  • HTA will deploy artificial intelligence to assist with content creation, automate assessments, and personalize learning, while keeping human judgment central to coaching, critical thinking, and professional judgment.

  • Overall, the upgrades position HTA to deliver integrated, technologically advanced training across agencies as part of a broader modernization effort.

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