Tactical Training Center
Orange County Sheriff’s Department

The Tactical Training Center, in the City of Orange, is one of the most realistic simulated police training villages in the state, and trains thousands of officers, agents, and private security company employees from the western United States. Like the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s tactical village at City Terrace, Orange County’s Tactical Training Center was built as a “laser village” in the 1980’s, when practice weapons emitted a laser light, and “victims” wore vests that electronically detected the approximate strike of the beam. Now small dye-filled simunitions are used.

The village has eight buildings: three residences ( blue house , den , bedroom , kitchen ; yellow house , den , bedroom , bathroom ; 2-story house , residence props , drug lab props ), a convenience store ( counter , detail 1 , detail 2 , back room ) a bank ( detail 1 , detail 2 , ATM ) a bar ( detail 1 , detail 2 ) a fast food restaurant ( detail 1 , detail 2 , manager's office ) and a service station ( detail .) Though the buildings are smaller in area than their real counterparts, realism is heightened by the use of actual commercial signs and props. In scenarios involving building searches, ambush survival, bomb squad training, bank robberies, hostage situations, and sniper confrontations, live actors play roles such as store clerks and customers. The five simulated businesses are in fact sponsored by the companies themselves, which support their maintenance through donations to police community foundations.