CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for December

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

The CDP conducted 23 non-resident courses for 608 responders and 68 indirect courses for 1,034 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.           

Most of the non-resident training consisted of law enforcement courses delivered to members of the New York City and City of Los Angeles police departments.  

The bulk of indirect training included the CDP’s Hospital Emergency Response Training for CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives) Incidents and Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics courses delivered to fire service personnel, medical specialists and law enforcement officers in Biddeford, Maine; Rochester, New York; Goshen, Connecticut; Houma, Louisiana; Dallas and Waco, Texas; Goodyear, Arizona; and San Bernadino and Stockton, California.

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.