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As Super Bowl LVI approaches, law enforcement officers and emergency responders at the state, local, and federal levels are preparing to ensure that the big game is safe and secure for the thousands of spectators, athletes, and team staff who are flocking to California. The National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC) is doing its part to equip these responders with the necessary skills for an event of this magnitude.
“Our members’ contributions to the security of the Super Bowl is one of the reasons the NDPC is respected for its high quality, timely response training,” said NDPC Chairman Jeff Mayne. “We are grateful to have a role in preparing these responders for such a momentous event, and we will continue to strive to deliver the same quality of training to responder communities throughout the country.”
One of the NDPC’s member organizations is New Mexico Tech’s Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center. Over the last two years, EMRTC delivered two of its courses – Incident Response to Terrorist Bombing and Prevention Response to Suicide Bombing – to 70 members of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Texas A&M’s Engineering Extension Service’s National Emergency Response and Recovery Training Center (TEEX/NERRTC) is another consortium organization that has been helping to bring the necessary training to the responder community in preparation for the Super Bowl. TEEX/NERRTC has delivered 20 emergency response courses in the Inglewood, California, area in the past year, reaching over 480 members of the responder community.
Another NDPC organization, the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), has trained more than 3,800 responders from the Los Angeles County and Inglewood areas in the past three years.
The responders, including law enforcement officers, health care personnel and firefighters, have been trained in person at the CDP campus in Anniston, Alabama, and on-site in California. Many of them have also gained additional knowledge and skills virtually, through the CDP’s web-based offerings.
Together, these trainings from NDPC members are a part of a comprehensive response education that will ensure the Super Bowl’s responders are prepared to respond to and recover from any potential threat.
About the NDPC:
The NDPC is a partnership of several nationally recognized organizations whose membership is based on the urgent need to address the counter-terrorism preparedness needs of the nation’s emergency first responders within the context of all hazards. The consortium is made up of seven members: the Center for Domestic Preparedness, the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, LSU’s National Center for Biomedical Research and Training/Academy of Counter-Terrorist Education, Texas A&M’s Engineering Extension Service’s National Emergency Response and Recovery Training Center, the Department of Energy’s Nevada Test Site, the Transportation Technology Center, Inc., and the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii.
