INCSCID is associated with two approaches to Immersive learning: the Minerva and Hydra simulations.

Critical incidents such as train de-railments, plane crashes, riots, collapsed buildings, chemical spillages, explosions, armed sieges, etc, are complex, initially chaotic and challenging to command and manage. Simulation of critical incidents must re-create this complexity, chaos and challenge by providing students with an information rich environment that looks, sounds and feels like the real thing.

Through the use of video, audio, photos, operational radio traffic, telephone, maps, intelligence, documentation, background noise, choice of problems and the sequencing and timing of simulation, the Hydra and Minerva systems are able to recreate such incidents in a very vivid and realistic way.

Simulations

Some simulations are delivered as part of a traditional training event, although most are capable of independent delivery

In addition to the Metropolitan Police and senior officers from all over Britain, Hydra and Minerva simulation suites have been used to train.

		New South Wales Police (Commanders for the 2000 Olympic Games)
		London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority – Fire-ground Command
		South Wales Police Service – Public Safety
		National Crime Faculty, Bramshill
		National Critical Incident Management National Law Enforcement College, Wyboston
		Cabinet Office, Top Managers Programme