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Bioterrorism Incident, Pre-Planning and Response Guide

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INTERPOL has a series of targeted training for law enforcement and relevant national agencies on how to prevent, prepare and respond to a bioterrorist attack. The trainings come as videos, handbooks and table top exercises. Their capacity building and training activities encourage a multi-agency approach and collaboration on the national and regional levels.

SUMMARY

The Bioterrorism Incident, Pre-Planning and Response Guide is a series of targeted training for law enforcement and relevant national agencies on how to prevent, prepare and respond to a bioterrorist attack. The training comes as videos, handbooks and table top exercises. Their capacity building and training activities encourage a multi-agency approach and collaboration on the national and regional levels. The overarching goal is to have a coordinated joint response to biological incidents. The trainings were published in 2017 and are in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. 

These trainings are published by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) Bioterrorsim unit. INTERPOL’s goal is to coordinate law enforcement around the world, and the Bioterrorism unit has programs to help law enforcement better prevent, prepare, and respond to biothreats. Examples of prevention activities include a Bioterrorism risks and controls workshop and a Dual-use materials awareness workshop for law enforcement; Preparedness modules include Bioterrorism tabletop exercises and Regional biological incident response plan meetings; Response ranges from Bioterrorism evidence exploitation training and Biological crime scene live operational exercise to Public messaging in a biological event workshop. INTERPOL works directly with law enforcement agencies in countries to put together these trainings and workshops.