Verification and Validation of the Public Order Management Serious Game
conference paper
In urban operations, military commanders have to take into account the civilians present in the operation area. This is why Public Order Management (POM) is an important subject of their training. The organization of POM field training is challenging. It requires lots of humans to act as crowds. It is hard to make the training sufficiently effective and efficient for the own units.
Therefore the Royal Netherlands Military Police and TNO initiated the development of a dedicated POM training system for commander staff. This system includes simulations of own POM units (formations, stances and dress) and crowds (movements, formations and aggression). Virtual Battlespace (VBS2) provides the system’s simulation engine. As VBS2 is not meant primarily for staff training nor for crowd control, a fair amount of functionality had to be added.
During development, multiple trials were organized with students from the NL school for Public Order Management. The final trials were meant to evaluate the utility and validity of the new training system. These Validation & Verification (V&V) sessions revealed that the new training system creates a valuable learning experience for the staff of a full POM platoon. It provided a challenging urban setting, where the trained staff could focus on the four key POM competences (tactics violence management, command and control, situational decision making, and communication), without the logistic burden of having the full platoon and several crowds on site.
Therefore the Royal Netherlands Military Police and TNO initiated the development of a dedicated POM training system for commander staff. This system includes simulations of own POM units (formations, stances and dress) and crowds (movements, formations and aggression). Virtual Battlespace (VBS2) provides the system’s simulation engine. As VBS2 is not meant primarily for staff training nor for crowd control, a fair amount of functionality had to be added.
During development, multiple trials were organized with students from the NL school for Public Order Management. The final trials were meant to evaluate the utility and validity of the new training system. These Validation & Verification (V&V) sessions revealed that the new training system creates a valuable learning experience for the staff of a full POM platoon. It provided a challenging urban setting, where the trained staff could focus on the four key POM competences (tactics violence management, command and control, situational decision making, and communication), without the logistic burden of having the full platoon and several crowds on site.
TNO Identifier
504412
Publisher
NATO-STO
Source title
Lecture Series of the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG) to be presented on 24-25 April 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden; on 5-6 May 2014 in Ottawa, Canada; and on 24-15 September 2014 in Rome, Italy.
Place of publication
Neuilly-sur-Seine