FBI Animal/Plant Health Joint Criminal-Epidemiological Investigations Workshop –Omaha AOR
FBI Animal/Plant Health Joint Criminal-Epidemiological Investigations Workshop –Omaha AOR
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 inter-professional relationships between law enforcement and animal/plant health experts
Target Audience:
- U.S. Department of Agriculture-APHIS (Veterinary Services, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Wildlife Services, Investigative and Enforcement Services, others)
- State department of agriculture (animal health, plant/crops)
- Livestock/farmers market personnel
- State fair directors and security personnel
- Local/state/tribal law enforcement personnel
- Agricultural/rural crimes investigators/brand inspectors
- U.S. Department of Defense installation veterinarians and public health personnel
- Army National Guard Civil Support Teams (CSTs)
- Emergency Management Agency/hazmat Teams
- State-federal Forestry Service personnel
- Wildlife/game and fish biologists and investigators
- Private-public service veterinarians
- Academia/university personnel (colleges of agriculture, veterinary schools)
- Public health department personnel
- Biological research-and-development programs/laboratories (public, private, corporate, academic)
- Tribal officials and personnel (health care, agriculture, emergency management)
- Commodity/producer groups/professionals (crops, livestock, others)
- Farm Bureau
- Cooperative Extension Service personnel
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel
- Animal and plant disease diagnostic laboratory personnel / LRNs
- Public health and food safety professionals
- U.S. Attorney's Office personnel
- Anyone who may respond to health, safety, and weapons-of-mass-destruction emergencies involving food, livestock, and crop production
Dates: August 7-8, 2023 | 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Penterman Armory, 2400 NW 24th Street, Lincoln, NE 68524
Registration Deadline: July 17, 2023
If you have any questions, please email kagallagher@fbi.gov and/or wgreening@fbi.gov.