CDP, TEEX hold joint exercise
CDP and TEEX partnered this week to create an enhanced training experience for their students.
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) partnered this week to create an enhanced training experience for their students.
More than 60 students on the CDP campus and more than 40 resident students at TEEX coordinated virtually to successfully resolve a mock civil disturbance over fossil fuels at a fictitious city motor pool.
TEEX’s Enhanced All-Hazards Incident Management/Unified Command students stood up an incident command post and called upon the responders attending the CDP’s Field Force Operations and Field Force Extrication Tactics courses to respond to the scene.
The coordinated training enabled TEEX participants to practice performing various functions of a busy emergency operations center, while CDP students exercised crowd control and other tasks associated with a large-scale protest.
This collaboration is a result of a law enforcement executive session conducted during the 2022 National Preparedness Symposium, which the CDP hosted. One gap identified in the session was a need for more training opportunities integrating law enforcement into emergency management.