CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for August

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

The CDP conducted 40 non-resident courses for 772 responders and 59 indirect courses for 649 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 bulk of non-resident training consisted of refresher training courses delivered to police academy recruits in Breezy Point, New York, and Granada Hills, California.

The indirect training included the CDP’s Hazardous Materials Awareness; Hospital Emergency Response Training for CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives) Incidents; Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics; and Law Enforcement Protective Measures for CBRNE Incidents courses delivered to firefighters, medical specialists and law enforcement officers in Corning, New York; Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania; Kingsport, Tennessee; River Ridge, Louisiana; Indianapolis, Indiana; Westmont, Illinois; Plano, Texas; Ann Arbor Michigan; West Fargo, North Dakota; West Burlington, Iowa; Greely Colorado; and Socorro, New Mexico.  

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.