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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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CDP hosted a senior level focus group of executives from the Black Chief Officers Committee (BCOC).
CDP hosts international firefighters organization executives

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness this week hosted a senior level focus group of executives from the Black Chief Officers Committee (BCOC).

Work Order Manager Dorothy Ping.
In the Spotlight: Dorothy Ping

Later this year, Dorothy Ping, better known to most people as Dot, will celebrate 20 years of working at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).

CDP has released its number of web-based course completions for December.
CDP releases web-based training numbers for December

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its number of web-based course completions for December.

Students review the details of an incident at a mall on a busy shopping day in the CDP's HCL Course.
Snapshot: HCL Course

Students review the details of an incident at a mall on a busy shopping day in the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Healthcare Leadership for Mass Casualty Incidents Course.

FEMA's Center for Domestic Preparedness met numerous training needs in 2022.
CDP met numerous training needs in 2022

State, local, tribal and territorial responders recorded 57,537 course completions in 2022 in training offerings provided by FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).

CDP is gearing up for its annual Tribal Nations Training Week, the largest event of its type in DHS.
CDP readies for 2023 Tribal Nations Training Week

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is gearing up for its annual Tribal Nations Training Week, the largest event of its type in the Department of Homeland Security.

Law enforcement officers practice using extrication tools in the FFE course.
Snapshot: Extrication Drill

Law enforcement officers practice using extrication tools in the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Field Force Extrication Tactics Course.

The CDP is preparing to release a new video short, Healthcare Provider Down.
CDP finalizing healthcare video short

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is preparing to release a new video short, Healthcare Provider Down.

CDP Instructor Jacob Clark.
In the Spotlight: Jacob Clark

In addition to being a hazardous materials instructor at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness, Jacob Clark is a lieutenant on the Hazardous Materials Response Team in Cobb County, Georgia.

CDP releases non-resident and indirect training numbers for November.
CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for November

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