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O'Fallon updates police training campus: range, EVOC track and classrooms near completion
Summary
City staff gave a detailed construction update on the Castle police training campus — a multi-component site that includes a 200-yard outdoor firing range, one-mile EVOC track, simulated 'shoot house' and a 27,000 sq ft classroom — and answered residents' questions about hours and noise.
City staff on Tuesday walked the public works board through the Castle police training campus, detailing progress on ranges, training buildings and site infrastructure and answering questions about operations and neighborhood impacts.
Chris, the project presenter, described the site as a multi-use training campus centered on an observation tower with a rappelling wall and an elevated shooting position, a 20-lane outdoor firing range with bolt-trap and centrifugal lead-collection, a 10,000-square-foot simulated shoot house and a 27,000-square-foot classroom building that can be partitioned for multiple training groups. He said the EVOC (emergency vehicle operations course) track is about one mile long…
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