CDP holds POPS-B training in Chicago

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) delivered its Public Order Public Safety Basic (POPS-B) and POPS-B Train-the-Trainer courses in Chicago earlier this month to 47 officers of that city’s police department.

This was the first offering of POPS-B with POPS-B TtT since the completion of the courses’ pilot offerings.

Chicago was specifically chosen for the deliveries to help responders in the city prepare for this year’s Democratic National Convention, which the city will host  in late August.

POPS-B provides law enforcement officers with essential information and skills needed to respond to a civil disturbance. It will become a key part of a multi-course CDP public order policing training program, along with POPS-Intermediate (currently known as Field Force Operations) and POPS-Leader courses, which are in development.

The POPS-B Train-the-Trainer Course enables participants to become indirect trainers for the CDP, teaching fellow law enforcement officers the skills and knowledge they learned. 

The CDP estimates the 47 graduates of the two courses in Chicago will eventually provide POPS-B training, with CDP support, to more than 7,000 of that city’s law enforcement officers.