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Responders practice skills analyzing a crime scene with potential contamination in the HEC course.
Snapshot: Hazardous Evidence Collection

Responders practice skills in analyzing a crime scene with potential contamination during Evidence Collection in a Hazardous Materials Environment (HEC) course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP to train law enforcement officers to respond to a variety of incidents during Law Enforcement Theme Week.
Field force training a focus for Law Enforcement Theme Week at CDP

The Center for Domestic Preparedness will train law enforcement officers to respond to a variety of incidents during its Law Enforcement Theme Week, September 20-26 at the center’s Anniston, Alabama campus.

First responders prepare instruments & kits for use during hazardous materials detection exercise in HT course.
Snapshot: Detecting hazardous materials

First responders prepare instruments and kits for use during a hazardous materials detection exercise in the Hazardous Materials Technologies: Sampling, Monitoring, and Detection (HT) course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).

CDP Law Enforcement Theme Week includes hazardous materials response.
CDP Law Enforcement Theme Week includes hazardous materials response

The Center for Domestic Preparedness will train law enforcement officers to respond to a variety of incidents, including those in hazardous environments, during its Law Enforcement Theme Week, September 20-26 at the center’s Anniston, Alabama, campus.

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Students hold a mock press conference during training this week at CDP.
Snapshot: Mock press conference

Students hold a mock press conference during training this week at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP hosts its 8th annual Tribal Nations Training Week.
CDP hosts eighth annual Tribal Nations Training Week

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is currently conducting its 8th annual Tribal Nations Training Week.

The CDP recently partnered with NEHA to provide the center’s EHTER OPS course.
CDP partners with NEHA to train environmental health leaders

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness recently formed a partnership with the National Environmental Health Association to provide the center’s Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response Operations course to environmental health professionals in the NEHA’s Leadership Academy Program.

The CDP released its resident training calendar for the month of July.
CDP releases schedule for July resident courses

The Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its resident training calendar for the month of July.

Students rely on CDP training during, following fire.
Students rely on CDP training during, following fire

When an electrical fire occurred last month at a Signature Healthcare medical facility in Brockton, Massachusetts, employees there used things they’d been taught in Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) training to establish an incident command and safely evacuate all patients and staff.

Students assess health and safety requirements for displaced individuals during this week's EHTER OPS Course.
Snapshot: EHTER Ops shelter assessment

Students assess health and safety requirements for displaced individuals during a simulated exercise this week in the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response Operations Course.

A ‘Shop Talk with the Sheriff’ podcast posted earlier today features CDP Superintendent Tony Russell.
CDP Superintendent featured on Florida sheriff’s podcast

A ‘Shop Talk with the Sheriff’ podcast posted earlier today features Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) Superintendent Tony Russell.

CDP hosts law enforcement working group.
CDP hosts law enforcement working group

A nation-wide working group of federal and civilian law enforcement officers is meeting at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) this week to review curriculum for a new Public Order and Safety Course developed by the Federal Protective Service (FPS) and taught at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia.

CDP partnering with NETEC on healthcare video short.
CDP partnering on healthcare video short

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is now partnering with the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) to produce its Healthcare Provider Down microlearning video.

CDP released February resident training numbers.
CDP releases February resident training numbers

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released the number of course completions recorded in February from those who trained on its campus in Anniston, Alabama.