CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for January

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

The CDP conducted 27 non-resident courses for 758 responders and 43 indirect courses for 974 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 January included the CDP’s Field Force Operations and Public Order Policing – Basic (POPS-B) courses delivered to responders in Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Indirect training during January included the CDP’s Hazardous Materials Awareness; Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents; Integrating Communications, Assessment and Tactics; and POPS-B courses delivered to responders in Rutledge, Tennessee; Bartow, Tarpon Springs and Wesley Chapel, Florida; Farmington Hills and Muskegon, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Placerville, 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.