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Home Animal/Plant Joint Criminal-Epidemiological Investigations Course - West Virginia

Animal/Plant Joint Criminal-Epidemiological Investigations Course - West Virginia

Animal/Plant Joint Criminal-Epidemiological Investigations Course - West Virginia

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 incident
  • Law enforcement threat assessments, intelligence, and criminal/terrorism investigations
  • Animal/plant health (animal and plant disease, unusual disease incidents, epidemiological investigations)
  • Determine if disease introductions are accidental, natural, or intentional (criminal/terrorism/espionage) incidents
  • Recognize and report suspicious triggers and establish tripwire programs
  • 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 interprofessional relationships between law enforcement and animal/plant health experts

Target Audience:

  • Public health and safety professionals
  • Police and hazmat officials
  • Emergency managers
  • Livestock officers and inspectors
  • Forestry officers
  • SDA and state Department of Agriculture personnel
  • Veterinarians
  • Tribal officials
  • Food producers
  • Farm and ranch professionals
  • Cooperative Extension Service personnel
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents
  • Laboratory personnel
  • Anyone who may respond to health, safety and weapons of mass destruction emergencies involving food, livestock, and crop production

Dates: March 30-31, 2023

Location: West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia)

Registration deadline: March 20, 2023

For questions, please reach out to jelauer@fbi.gov.

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