Animal/Plant Joint Criminal-Epidemiological Investigations Course (May 14-15 OR May 16-17)

Registration deadline: May 3, 2024

For questions, please reach out to jdstanley@fbi.gov.

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