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

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its number of web-based course completions for October.

CDP Instructor, Daniel Rodriguez.
In the Spotlight: Daniel Rodriguez

An instructor at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness, Daniel Rodriguez has been a police officer for more than 32 years and currently serves as commander of his department’s special operations division in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Students from Samford University experience decontamination processes during the HERO Course.
Snapshot: HERO Course

Students experience decontamination processes during the Healthcare Emergency Response Operations for CBRNE Incidents Course this week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP has completed filming of its latest HAZMAT ‘video short’.
CDP finalizing HAZMAT ‘video short’

The Center for Domestic Preparedness has completed filming of its latest microlearning offering – Grounding and Bonding for Liquid Product Transfer.

During HERT training at the CDP, healthcare students triage and ‘decontaminate’ a steady stream of mock ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients.
CDP grads help chemical accident victims

Six responders from Bronx, New York, put their CDP training to use recently, less than a week after graduating from the center’s Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT) Course.

CDP has seats available in upcoming HID course.
Upcoming HID course has seat openings

The Center for Domestic Preparedness has seats available in its Barrier Precautions and Controls for Highly Infectious Disease (HID) Course slated for delivery November 29 to December 4.

CDP to offer nearly 100 resident training opportunities in March, April.
CDP to offer nearly 100 resident training opportunities in March, April

When registration opens for Center for Domestic Preparedness resident courses in March and April 2022, prospective students will be able to choose from a list of nearly 100 different offerings, including several courses which will culminate with the center’s extremely popular Integrated Capstone Event.

Students question ‘individuals who discovered a strange package’ in a RERO Course exercise at the CDP.
Snapshot: Radiological Emergency Response Operations

Students question ‘individuals who discovered a strange package’ in a Radiological Emergency Response Operations (RERO) Course exercise this week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP's COBRATF underwent an inspection by a team from the DHS Compliance Assurance Program Office.
CDP laboratories sail through compliance inspection

The CDP’s Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF) underwent an inspection this week by a team from the Department of Homeland Security’s Compliance Assurance Program Office.

Chemist, LaToya Harmon.
In the Spotlight: LaToya Harmon

LaToya Harmon has been with the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological (COBRA) Training Facility since 2015.