CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for December

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) this week released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for December.

The CDP conducted 22 non-resident courses for 873 responders and 49 indirect courses for 781 responders during the month, the report 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.           

Non-resident training during December included the CDP’s Law Enforcement Protective Measures for Complex Incidents, Law Enforcement Response Actions for CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive) Incidents, and Field Force Operations courses delivered to responders in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Indirect training during December included the CDP’s Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents; Integrating Communications, Assessment and Tactics; and Law Enforcement Protective Measures for Complex courses delivered to responders in University Corner, Michigan; Hixon, Nashville, and Smyrna, Tennessee; Lakeland, St. Petersburg, and West Palm Beach, Florida; Fort Madison, Iowa; Northridge, California; and Honolulu, Hawaii.

Since opening in 1998, the CDP has trained more than 1.4 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.