CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for July

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

The CDP conducted 12 non-resident courses for 321 responders and 44 indirect courses for 622 responders during the month, the release 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 July included the CDP’s Field Force Operations and Law Enforcement Protective Measures courses delivered to responders representing the Missouri Highway Patrol, the Washington State Patrol Academy, and the Richmond, Virginia, and Charlotte, North Carolina, police departments.

Indirect training during July included the CDP’s Hazardous Materials Awareness, Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents and Law Enforcement Protective Measures courses delivered to responders in White Plains, New York; Bartow and Tampa, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Dallas, Houston and Lubbock, Texas; McCook, Nebraska; 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.