The course is designed to assist emergency responders, firefighters, safety response personnel, and law enforcement personnel with the necessary skills to function as first level responders. It prepares participants to be  able to respond to terrorist type incidents involving explosives and incendiary materials. Terrorists strike anywhere anytime, with successful preparation we are able to minimize the damage incurred, minimize effects of surrounding communities, and preserve life, safety, and evidence. Most importantly, we emphasize proper documentation and collection of evidence techniques.

1. Terrorism introduction
2. Targets (soft & hard)
3. Vulnerability analysis of critical infrastructures
4. Bombing ? tactics of choice
5. Suicide Terrorism
6. Threat analysis and risk assessment Carver matrix
7. Principles of Explosive/incendiary devices including dirty bombs
8. Recognition and identification of Energetic materials

        a. Primary explosives

        b. Secondary explosives

        c. Tertiary explosives

9. Improvised Explosive Devices (lessons learned from the London bombings and others)

10. Bomb threats

11. Bomb Scene response (Incident & Unified command Systems) practical exercises.

        a. evacuation

        b. search

        c. suspect identification

      c. priorities

        d. scene control (fire, crowd, traffic, etc.)

        e. evidence recovery (physical and latent, fingerprinting ? you will do/learn fingerprinting)

12. Secondary devices