The Geary USD 475 Board of Education has approved the purchase of a new 911 simulator for a cost of $26,597.

The simulator will support a course in the law, public safety and security pathway at Junction City High School, that provides students with the skills to become 911 operators or dispatchers.

Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Corbin Witt, stated, “This is a program that would allow our students to learn those skills, use this piece of equipment to learn how to be a dispatcher. And possibly when they leave high school they could move right into being a dispatcher through the use of this equipment that taught them how to do that.”

The simulator is being funded through a grant program.

Prior to taking the operator course students will have completed introduction to law enforcement and law enforcement one. The 911 operator course has been at approved at JCHS by the Kansas State Department of Education.