The Animal Plant Health Joint Criminal and Epidemiological Workshop is a two day course facilitated by the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD), and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Workshop will be hosted by the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) at their Reynoldsburg, Ohio Campus/Facility.
The Workshop provides joint investigations training to improve efforts to identify and investigate potential overt or covert biological threats to animal and plant health. The interactive course provides training for law enforcement, animal/plant and public health investigators at the local, state, and federal levels. Additionally, the course provides focus on threats to the production agriculture sector, to include livestock, crops, some wildlife, forests, bio-tech R&D, insider threats, and agricultural economic espionage. The Workshop is an effort to help improve local response plans by developing triggers and tripwires, information sharing protocols, and training models for joint investigations between FBI, local law enforcement, animal/plant investigators, public health, emergency responders and the private sector.
To Register, e-mail with name(s), title(s), agency/company, address, phone number and points of contact by 4/25/2019 to: Richard Maier at ramaier@fbi.gov;
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For more information, please contact:
Dennis Summers, DVM - Assistant State Veterinarian, Ohio Dept. Of Agriculture - Dennis.Summers@agri.ohio.gov; 614-728-6265
Richard Maier -FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordinator (Cincinnati Division)– ramaier@fbi.gov; 513-979-8307
Bryan Seamour – FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordinator (Cleveland Division) – bkseamour@fbi.gov; 419-566-4960
Proudly brought to you by the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)