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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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Brian Shirley says CDP training helped him deal with traumatic experiences.
Responder lauds CDP healthcare training

CDP alum lauds training, says it helped him deal with traumatic experiences.

CDP Field Force Operations Training
CDP Releases May Training Numbers

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

Downtown Charlotte, North Carolina.
CDP preps responders for 2020 Republican National Convention

More than 70 law enforcement specialists from North Carolina attended CDP non-resident training this week to enhance their skills in advance of the 2020 Republic National Convention in Charlotte.

Students attending select courses at the COBRA training facility will soon wear Blauer suits (Right) instead of JSLIST (Joint Service Lightweight Integrated Suit Technology) suits (Left).
Students to train in new protective suits

Students attending select courses at the CDP’s COBRA (Chemical, Ordnance, Biological, and Radiological) Training Facility will soon be outfitted with Blauer XRT suits when they train here.

The expansion of the CDP’s primary kitchen more than doubles the number of students the Center is able to feed.
CDP completes massive kitchen expansion

The CDP now has the capacity to feed more than 1,000 students three meals a day. 

One of the CDP’s newest courses will teach responders how to manage surges in an ER or surgical department.
CDP developing medical ‘Overwhelming Trauma Events’ course

The CDP is now one-step closer to developing its new ‘Medical Response to Overwhelming, No-Notice Trauma Events’ course.

CDP training in Puerto Rico.
CDP trains 700-plus in Puerto Rico

The CDP on Thursday said that it trained more than 700 healthcare professionals from across Puerto Rico during two consecutive weeks of training it conducted on the island.

Al Davis, Chairman of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium addresses the symposium.
CDP welcomes National Preparedness Symposium attendees

The CDP welcomed about 250 guests to its campus May 21-23 for the 2019 National Preparedness Symposium.

Graduates of 11 Hospital Emergency Response Training course deliveries were among those who helped the CDP set a new standard for Indirect Course graduates in a single week.
CDP sets new ‘Indirect’ course standard

The CDP set a new standard last week by graduating more than 500 responders from ‘Indirect’- taught courses in a single week.

Healthcare response training at the CDP.
CDP Releases April Training Numbers

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