Community members and Evanston Township High School students took part in training scenarios this week at the Evanston Police Department, police said.

The eight community members and 10 students went through the scenarios with a Firearms Training System, which uses interactive videos to train officers in decision-making skills. Because of the scenarios, attendees could gain understanding of police decision-making and how police train their skills, police said.

The simulator, which employs handgun replicas, is directed by a Firearms Training System instructor who decides how the simulator characters respond to the user’s decisions. The user and instructor can go over the decisions after each scenario.

The officers involved in the event could see the scenarios for themselves and see how the citizens and students reacted to the situations, police said.

The students attended as a part of a public safety class that is taught at ETHS.

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