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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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Responders can currently choose from four online CDP courses.
Demand remains high for CDP’s newest courses

The Center for Domestic Preparedness’ online courses continue to average approximately 500 course completions per month.

Healthcare workers take care of a ‘patient’ who exhibited symptoms of a highly infectious disease.
CDP to host training weeks focused on Highly Infectious Diseases

The Center for Domestic Preparedness will host two theme weeks in the coming months centered on highly infectious diseases.

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CDP to be on display from Louisiana to Chicago to Sacramento

The CDP has announced its ‘road show’ display schedule for the next 100 days.

Army Materiel Command Inspector Penny Pretrowski jots down an observation during the compliance review.
COBRA Training Facility undergoing bi-annual compliance inspection

The CDP’s COBRA (Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological) Training Facility is getting a top-to-bottom compliance inspection this week by a team from the Army’s Materiel Command headquarters in Huntsville, AL.

A team of responders ‘decons’ a fellow responder during an Integrated Capstone Event at the CDP.
CDP Releases June Training Numbers

The CDP has released its training numbers for the month of June.

A student receives feedback from an instructor during Tribal Training Week 2019.
CDP announces dates for Tribal Training Week 2020

The Center for Domestic for Domestic Preparedness has announced the dates for its next Tribal Training Week, the largest annual tribal training event in the Department of Homeland Security.

CDP Strategic Plan 2019-2023.
CDP unveils latest Strategic Plan

The Center for Domestic Preparedness has formally unveiled its latest strategic plan.

Disaster Surgery.
CDP to be featured in national publication

The CDP will be featured in the July issue of the American Journal of Disaster Medicine.

CDP Emergency Operations Center Manager Ken Spears.
CDP unveils ‘new’ Emergency Operations Center 

Ken Spears isn’t hoping to have the CDP’s ‘new’ emergency operations center baptized anytime soon. But, he says the EOC, which recently underwent an extensive renovation, is ready, should it need to be put into action.

A responder takes down an assailant during the capstone exercise of the CDP’s Complex Coordinated Attack Theme Week.
CDP hosts annual Complex Coordinated Attack Theme Week

The Center for Domestic Preparedness hosted its 2019 Complex Coordinated Attack Theme Week June 10-14 on its campus in Anniston, AL.