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Hydra

Hydra has been developed to simulate more protracted incidents and investigations then those suitable for Minerva. Hydra incidents may take days or even weeks to resolve. In the case of a major crime investigation, the Hydra system can simulate crime management activity spanning several months.

Hydra allows for slow-time strategic decision-making that typically follows the initial tactical incident management of first response policing. Being a syndicate-based system, Hydra also allows for the training of a command ‘course’, each of the participants has identical roles and responsibilities and only one of whom would be engaged as incident or investigation manager at a real incident.

Hydra is a training simulator designed to provide learning scenarios that are as close to the real thing as possible. Realism within a training setting ensures that experiences gained within the learning environment can be readily and easily transferred to the real world.

The Hydra system provides students with a chance to experience the management of large-scale criminal investigations and major critical incident command within a safe but challenging training setting where good practice can be identified and shared but where mistakes have no operational consequences.

The simulator runs on a network of computers running the Hydra software developed by Dr Jonathan Crego for the Metropolitan Police Service, London, UK.

Hydra course include the following:

		Superintendents Authority in Firearms Incidents
		Multi-agency Response to Major Incident
		Borough Commanders Programme with their Duty Officers
		Inter-agency Response in Child Protection
		Strategic Management of Critical Incidents Exercise
		Counter Terrorism Exercises (in development).