About the Training – Training Objectives:
•Understand law enforcement and animal - plant health agency roles, responsibilities, and authorities during an outbreak of an unusual, suspicious, and/or high consequence animal or plant disease incidents
•Law enforcement threat assessments, intelligence, and criminal/terrorism investigations
•Animal/Plant Health (veterinary and plant disease unusual disease incident epidemiological investigations
•Determine if disease introductions are accidental, natural, or intentional (criminal-terrorism-espionage) incidents
•Identify assets and capabilities for each discipline
•Demonstrate types of information collected by law enforcement and animal/plant health experts and how and when to share it
•Discuss best practices for conducting a joint threat assessment, joint investigations, joint interviews, and evidence collection
•Develop inter-professional relationships between law enforcement and animal/plant health experts
Who Should Attend:
•Public Health and Safety professionals, Police and Fire Investigators, Emergency Managers, Livestock Officers and Inspectors, Forestry Officers, USDA and Department of Agriculture, Veterinarians, food producers, farm and ranch professionals, and anyone who may respond to health, safety and WMD emergencies involving food, dairy or livestock production.
