22 U.S.C. § 4866 — Security training for personnel assigned to a high risk, high threat post
submitted 10 years ago by Pub. L. 99-399 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 228 words · no verdicts yet
People permanently or long-term temporarily assigned to a high-risk, high-threat post must receive mandatory security training. The section lists training subjects and defines “complex attack.”
(a) Individuals permanently assigned, or in long-term temporary duty as designated by the Secretary of State, to a high-risk, high-threat post must receive (b) training to prepare for living and working there.
(b) Training improves basic knowledge and skills and may cover recognizing, avoiding, and responding to terrorist situations including a “complex attack”; surveillance detection; emergency medical care; improvised-explosive-device detection; minimal firearms familiarity; and defensive driving.
(c) The requirements took effect December 16, 2016.
(d) “Complex attack” means an attack by multiple hostile elements using at least two distinct weapon-system classes, such as indirect and direct fire, improvised explosive devices, and surface-to-air fire. “High risk, high threat post” has the meaning in § 4803; this section does not define it.
Individuals assigned permanently to or who are in long-term temporary duty status as designated by the Secretary of State at a high risk, high threat post shall receive security training described in subsection (b) on a mandatory basis in order to prepare such individuals for living and working at such posts.
Security training referred to in subsection (a)—
is training to improve basic knowledge and skills; and
may include—
an ability to recognize, avoid, and respond to potential terrorist situations, including a complex attack;
conducting surveillance detection;
providing emergency medical care;
ability to detect the presence of improvised explosive devices;
minimal firearms familiarization; and
defensive driving maneuvers.
The requirements of this section shall take effect upon December 16, 2016.
In this section and section 4867 of this title:
The term “complex attack” has the meaning given such term by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, as follows: “An attack conducted by multiple hostile elements which employ at least two distinct classes of weapon systems (i.e., indirect fire and direct fire, improvised explosive devices, and surface to air fire).”.
The term “high risk, high threat post” has the meaning given such term in section 4803 of this title.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 99–399, title IV, § 416, as added Pub. L. 114–323, title I, § 121(a), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1913.)
- 2016Enacted · Pub. L. 99-399 · 130 Stat. 1913
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 99-399 on 2016-12-16.
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