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Description: This course provides public safety and security professionals with the knowledge and skills to employ the fundamentals of surveillance detection for bombing prevention related to a facility/system or a planned or unplanned event and to recognize hostile surveillance activity.
Course Length: This is a four-hour training covering the following topics:
Description: The Bomb-Making Materials Awareness: Your Role courses uses an immersive, graphic novel style storytelling approach to educate and empower community members on how to identify and report suspicious activity and purchasing behaviors related to bomb-making materials.
Course Length: This is a 40-minute self-paced training covering the following topics:
Suspicious Purchasing Behavior Awareness Card
Suspicious Purchasing Behavior Awareness Poster
VBIED Identification Card
Instructor-led Resident and Non-resident Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) training is delivered by subject matter experts that come to your location, or in-residence at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Center for Domestic Preparedness. These courses build nationwide counter-IED capabilities and increase awareness of IED threats by providing information to prevent, protect against, respond to, and mitigate bombing incidents. All courses are provided free of charge.
FBI-DHS Private Sector Advisory - Peroxide Products Poster
FBI-DHS Private Sector Advisory - Peroxide Products Card
Mail and Suspicious Package Guidance Poster
The "What to Do" training video series (TVS) communicates IED threats, explains counter-IED concepts, and demonstrates bombing prevention procedures by showing the audiences how to react to a bombing attack and deal with a variety of explosive threats such as bomb threats and suspicious items. Sometimes referred to as "how-to" videos, these training videos are designed to improve individual skills to identify indicators of an IED attack, threat conditions, and mitigation measures.