Senior Special Agent Virginia State Police Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
The class covers many of the items and techniques Kevin Richards has learned about or actually encountered, while working cases as a Special Agent assigned to WMD/Hazmat response. The class covers the misuse of store-bought and 'common items' to make things like cyanide dispersal devices, homemade blister and nerve agents, where to find radioactive sources on the economy, hypergolic mixtures, toxins and poisons, explosives, suicide and accidental death methods, and simple party favorites that can be used on a large scale. Live examples will be shown for the students to see so they can later recognize them.
Learning Objectives:
The participant will learn to recognize many homemade WMD items and will see many of the live items.
The participant will learn about techniques and common items used to manufacturer homemade WMD's and protester devices. Learning items can be used in a way not intended by the manufacturer.
The participant will be introduced to trends used by "Do-It-Your-Selfers" experimenting with poisons, toxins, and CBRNE agents. Becoming familiar with these items, they have a better chance of recognizing them.
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