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.