The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness will be sponsoring two deliveries of an eight-hour training program titled: “Homemade Explosives: Awareness, Recognition, and Response (AWR-313).” The program will be delivered by the Energetic Materials Research & Testing Center (EMRTC) at New Mexico Tech (NMT), a member of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC).

Description

This course is designed for all levels of first responders who may respond to or encounter a homemade explosives incident. Participants will be able to: recognize and identify commercial precursors used in homemade explosives; recognize the physical characteristics of commonly found homemade explosives; recognize homemade explosive processing equipment; improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and their components; and apply legal principles to determine probable cause and identify appropriate use of force options in suicide bombing incidents.

Registration

All participants must have a FEMA Student Identification Number (SID). To create, retrieve or for additional information to obtain a SID, visit: https://cdp.dhs.gov/femasid/

To sign up, please use the registration links on the attached flyer (DOWNLOAD HERE).