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Integrated Capstone Events (ICE) will cap off Law Enforcement Training Week.
Realistic exercises will cap off Law Enforcement Training Week

During Law Enforcement Training Week, September 7-13, FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), plans to hold Integrated Capstone Events (ICE) for each of its training tracks, giving students the opportunity to experience realistic scenarios in a training environment.

CDP has released its resident training calendar for the month of October.
CDP releases October resident course schedule

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its resident training calendar for the month of October.

CDP has released its resident training calendar for the month of October.
CDP releases October resident course schedule

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its resident training calendar for the month of October.

CDP is including explosive awareness and response training in its Tribal Nations Training Week this year.
Flame Track brings explosive awareness to CDP’s Tribal Nations Training Week

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is including explosive awareness and response training in its Tribal Nations Training Week this year.

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The CDP is putting the final touches on its new Public Order and Public Safety – Executive Course.
CDP finalizing VILT for LE leaders

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is putting the final touches on its new Public Order and Public Safety – Executive (POPS-E) Course, which is scheduled for release later this year.

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Snapshot: Product Containment

Students secure a valve on a liquid container during this week’s Hazardous Materials Technician Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness. Responders learn several product containment techniques in the five-day course, which prepares them for technician-level hazmat certification.

Instructor Michael Dunlevy
In the Spotlight: Michael Dunlevy

Since 2015, Michael Dunlevy has been an instructor at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness, specializing in pre-hospital emergency response to mass casualty incidents involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive materials.

CDP improving infrastructure and facilities campus-wide.
CDP improving infrastructure, facilities

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) recently completed two sizable paving projects and is gearing up to begin another.

CDP offers emergency management training through distance learning.
CDP provides emergency management training through distance learning

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness offers responders a library of self-paced, web-based, training offerings which can be accessed anywhere, through a computer or mobile device.

Responders speak with ‘victims’ of a hazardous materials incident in the LERA Course.
Snapshot: LERA

Responders speak with ‘victims’ of a hazardous materials incident in this week’s Law Enforcement Response Actions for CBRNE Incidents (LERA) Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

Work continues on several projects to update and upgrade the CDP COBRA Training Facility.
Work continues on COBRA enhancements

Work continued this week at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness on several projects to update and upgrade its Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological (COBRA) Training Facility.

The CDP will offer a week of train-the-trainer courses September 11-16.
Instructor Development Training Week scheduled for September

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will offer a week of train-the-trainer courses September 11-16, which will prepare attendees to deliver select CDP training to other responders in their communities.

CDP grad relies on his training in tornado response.
CDP grad relies on training in tornado response

When an EF-4 tornado struck Winterset, Iowa, on March 5, Diogenes Ayala, director of the Madison County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, relied on training he received from FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in his response to the storm.

CDP released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for April.
CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for April

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for April.