Second Life: Vancouver Police Use Second Life To Recruit

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Via GamePolitics, one of those stories that made me go 'Isn't this taking things a little too far?': setting up a virtual college campus for tours is one thing, but a police recruitment center? The Vancouver Police Department's rational behind the decision, at least in part? If you're playing Second Life, you must be tech-savvy, and since the department feels crimes are migrating ever more frequently to new forms of media, you're just the type of recruit they're looking for to battle crime on the magical online (or something like that).
The police police department hopes to attract the real-life people behind the avatars at the seminar, he says. Even if an avatar represents a real-life candidate who lives in England or Germany, he says, they will be considered.Beyond just recruiting, he sees a lot of potential for using a virtual, Second Life police force in other capacities -- especially since there seems to be exponential growth online.
"It's going to be interesting when we start to receive crime reports -- you know, harassment cases or things like that -- in the virtual world," he says. "How are we going to deal with them?"​
This is interesting in light of the fact that some of the earliest proponents of setting up virtual shop in places like Second Life are backing out, or at least striking out on their own. I just wonder: when will the mainstream stop thrilling to the potential promise of virtual recruiting etc. in Second Life, and when is this trend finally going to burn itself out?
VPD: Virtual Police Department [Vancouver Sun via GamePolitics]
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