Training
Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Package Inspection and Mailroom Procedures Course (NTED Catalog # NJ-016-PREV)
This one, two, or three day course will review common Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) used in mailroom and package attacks. Participants will be presented with detailed examples of IED's, X-ray and current detection equipment, methods to establish evacuation protocols for IED threats (e.g. fire drill, code word), past attack tactics, especially those used against security measures similar to those in place at the facility or event, and best practices relating to package handling and mailroom procedures.
This course will be tailored to your specific mission and will include Explosive recognition, IED components, IED recognition and explosive detection. In addition, if your facility has a mail room X-Ray inspection portal, IED X-Ray interpretation can be added. The X-ray training portion will also include practical, hands on training, with your specific equipment, of the recognition of current trends in mail bomb IED's, and proficiency tests. NDPCI has an assortment of approximately 25 IED's that will be used during the training. These IED's have been used by bombers in the past, and the IED components and configuration are still being seen. Participants will receive Coalition member access to a web-based post-course resource site and a resource CD.
Operations Based Threat, Risk, and Vulnerability Assessment Course
The “Operations Based Threat, Risk and Vulnerability Assessment” (OpBTRVA) Training was developed to assist homeland security professionals, responders from all emergency response disciplines, and the private sector, responsible for completing assessments and managing risk, to understand and complete threat, risk, and vulnerability assessments and use the information gathered in the assessments within their own operations. Understanding how to complete TRV assessments and how to apply information from the various assessments to their daily operations of prevention, protection, response, and recovery to all hazards gathered will enhance a jurisdiction’s capability to manage homeland security risks.
This course is designed to help homeland security professionals, including those from multiple response disciplines and the private sector, complete assessments as well as understand, analyze, and apply information gathered in the assessment process. The course will enhance operations including: tactical operations, intelligence gathering, creating and delivering community programs, emergency planning, resource allocation, response to the National Terrorism Advisory System, and DHS Alerts, operational response and recovery, as well as using the information for writing grant proposals and for the selection of applicable technology.
Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, this course will give assessors insight into what information should be included while completing assessments, by providing an understanding of what information is needed to produce plans and be useful to the operation.
Course development was based upon various Threat, Risk, and Vulnerability Assessment (TRVA) methodologies supported and recognized for analyzing, reducing and countering risks by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The primary source for the OpBTRVA was the Homeland Security Comprehensive Assessment Model (HLS-CAM™). The OpBTRVA is based upon the HLS-CAM™.School Based Threat, Risk, and Vulnerability Assessment (SBTRVA) Training
The “School Based Threat, Risk and Vulnerability Assessment” (SBTRVA) Training was developed to assist campus security, school administration, staff and employees, responders from all emergency response disciplines including; Law Enforcement; Fire Service, Emergency Medical, Emergency Management, and the private sector, to understand and complete threat, risk, and vulnerability assessments of schools and use the information gathered in the assessments to ensure that their schools are safe and secure.
The SBTRVA is a comprehensive assessment that evaluates a school systems strengths and weaknesses in regard to safety and security, identifies critical infrastructure and key resources, identifies the threats to the schools from an all hazard perspective, and provides a comprehensive vulnerability assessment.
The information gathered in the SBTRVA methodology converts easily to school safety and security operations; emergency planning, tactical considerations; prevention activities; protection activities; incident response and command; recovery; and the selection of applicable security technology.