CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for April

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for April.

The CDP conducted 42 non-resident courses for 857 responders and 31 indirect courses for 346 responders during the month, it said.

Non-resident courses are delivered by contract CDP instructors at locations across the United States. Indirect courses are delivered by volunteer responders to others in their organization, community, or both. The volunteer responders must be graduates of the courses they instruct as well as that course’s associated train-the-trainer course.

The non-resident training included the CDP’s Standardized Awareness Training, Law Enforcement Protective Measures for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE) Incidents, and Law Enforcement Response Actions for CBRNE Incidents courses, delivered to law enforcement recruits and officers in Suffolk County, New York; Castle Hayne, North Carolina; Broward County, Florida; and Los Angeles, California.

The indirect training included the CDP’s Field Force Operations, Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents, Hazardous Materials Awareness and Standardized Awareness Training courses delivered to firefighters, healthcare professionals and law enforcement officers in Frederick, Maryland; Lutz, Florida; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Bismark, North Dakota; Las Vegas, Nevada; Goodyear, Arizona; and Waipahu, Hawaii. 

Since opening in 1998, the CDP has trained more than 1.3 million responders. That number includes responders trained online; on the CDP’s campus in Anniston, Alabama; and at locations across the United States and its territories.