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Law Enforcement Prevention and Deterrence of Terrorist Attacks

The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) in a partnership with the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pleased to offer Louisiana State University’s National Center for Biomedical Research and Training’s (LSU-NCBRT) “Law Enforcement Prevention and Deterrence of Terrorist Attacks” course. 

Course Description:

This course trains law enforcement personnel on actions they can take to prevent, deter and respond to terrorist acts. The law enforcement officer is part of the front line defense in preventing and deterring WMD terrorist incidents where the release of WMD agents is likely to occur because of criminal actions. The nature of law enforcement officers’ daily work environment provides them with an enhanced understanding of the community not shared by the public. This heightened community awareness provides law enforcement officers with a unique opportunity to prevent or deter potential WMD terrorist incidents.  

This awareness-level course focuses on the recognition, prevention, and deterrence of terrorist activity and crime-related high consequence events for law enforcement and other public safety professionals. Subject areas covered in the course include intelligence gathering, threat recognition, community-oriented policing, counterfeit identification detection, information sharing among agencies and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) agents or materials that can be procured either legitimately or illegally to produce a WMD.

Topics to be discussed include:

  • Evolution and Trends in Terrorism

  • Terrorist Activities and Disrupting Terrorist Attacks

  • Recognizing Weapons of Mass Destruction

  • Recognizing Fraudulent Identity Documents

  • Public Contacts, Collection and Suspicious Activity Reporting

  • Preparing to Teach Law Enforcement Prevention and

  • Deterrence of Terrorist Attacks

Who should attend?

This training is only open to sworn law enforcement officers.  

Partial In-service Credit

Partial in-service credit for law enforcement is available for this course.  

To Register

  • Once your registration is complete, you will receive an email confirmation. This email will contain your FEMA SID and registration Confirmation Number. Make sure to have this information available to you in class! You will need this to complete the online post-test and class evaluation. 

  • As soon as you complete registration, you will see a link "Begin Class Pre-Test". Click on this link to access the class pre-test. A completed pre-test is required in order to later take the post-test and receive class credit.

  • The online registration site is mobile friendly and can be used by any phone, tablet, or computer with internet access. At the end of training, a post-test and class evaluation will be conducted. Bring a device to class that can access the online registration site, so you may complete your post-test and evaluation online. Your post-test will be graded immediately, and you will be able to review the answers. As soon as the post-test is passed and the class evaluation is completed, your Class Information page will update to include a link for your certificate. The certificate may be downloaded as a PDF to your device, or sent as a PDF to your email.

  • If you need assistance with the online registration site, please contact the NCBRT Help Desk at help@ncbrt.lsu.edu.

Course Time and Details 

  • Check-in for the training will begin at 7:30 AM on August 15, 2023. 

  • Training will begin at 8:00 AM and conclude at or around 5:00 PM each day. 

Cost

There is no fee to attend this training and all training materials will be provided for registrants. 

For More Information, Contact:

Chris Scuderi
804.278.7054
Email Chris