Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) officers used training provided by the Center for Domestic Preparedness to help quell an inmate disturbance in December.
The incident involved more than 20 inmates from the Southern Nevada Correctional Center, who set several fires in a building.
According to reports, to safely restore order, the corrections officers used a …
When a series of devastating tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in early December, leaving destruction, despair and grief in their wake, hundreds of responders sprang into action to tend to the storms’ survivors.
Chances are good a number of those responders were graduates of one or more Center for Domestic Preparedness courses.
The Center for Domestic Preparedness has released a web-based refresher version of its resident Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) Course.
The resident course is a five-day operations-level offering which teaches responders how to analyze, plan and implement response actions for hazardous materials incidents. The course meets OSHA hazmat operations certification standards and is a pre-requisite for …