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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 among the organizations being credited with ensuring an incident-free 2022 World Games earlier this month.
Safe World Games owed, in part, to CDP training

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is among the organizations being credited with ensuring an incident-free 2022 World Games earlier this month.

Law enforcement officers search the scene of a simulated hazardous material incident during this week’s HOT-LE Course.
Snapshot: Hands-On Training

Law enforcement officers search the scene of a simulated hazardous material incident during this week’s Intermediate Hands-On Training for CBRNE Incidents: Law Enforcement Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP has released its resident training calendar for the month of November.
CDP releases November resident calendar

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

Resident Training Team Lead Laura Amerson.
In the Spotlight: Laura Amerson

Laura Amerson, a contract resident training team lead at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), enjoys knowing she’s part of an organization which helps ensure the nation’s preparedness.

CDP has released the number of web-based course completions it tallied during September.
CDP releases web-based training numbers for June

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

CDP has added toxic gas response and sampling refresher courses to its distance learning library.
Toxic gas response and sampling refresher courses released

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has added two new courses to its distance learning library – Toxic Gas-Forming Reactions Training (TRO) and Post-BioWatch Actionable Result Sampling Refresher Training (Post-BAR).

Students learn how to operate monitoring and detection equipment during the HT course.
Snapshot: Hazardous Materials Detection

Students learn how to operate monitoring and detection equipment during the Hazardous Materials Technologies: Sampling, Monitoring, and Detection (HT) Course on the CDP campus.

CDP web-based training course focuses on radiological incident safety.
CDP course focuses on radiological incident safety

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) offers responders a wide variety of self-paced, web-based, training courses which can be accessed anywhere, through a computer or mobile device.

CDP among the organizations being credited with ensuring an incident-free 2022 World Games earlier this month.
CDP training enhances preparedness for 2022 World Games

When the 2022 World Games begin this week, they will be supported by more than 1,200 first responders throughout the City of Birmingham and Jefferson County, Alabama, who received training delivered by the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).

A student delivers a presentation during the Instructor Training Course at the CDP campus.
Snapshot: Instructor Training

A student delivers a presentation during this week’s Instructor Training Course (ITC) on the Center for Domestic Preparedness campus.