22 U.S.C. § 5505 — Disaster training for State Department personnel
submitted 36 years ago by Pub. L. 101-604 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 110 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary of State must create extra disaster-management training for consular officers. The Secretary must consult bereavement experts and consider crisis teams or outside experts.
(a) Additional training. The Secretary of State must establish an additional disaster-management training program for all consular officers.
(b) Improving training. (1) When expanding the program, the Secretary must consult death and bereavement counselors about the special demands of aviation tragedies and terrorist activity. (2) The Secretary must consider adding either (A) specialized training that creates a team of “disaster specialists” who can deploy immediately during a crisis, or (B) outside experts who can help consular personnel during the crisis’s initial stages. This section does not define “disaster specialists.”
The Secretary of State shall institute a supplemental program of training in disaster management for all consular officers.
In expanding the training program under subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall consult with death and bereavement counselors concerning the particular demands posed by aviation tragedies and terrorist activities.
In providing such additional training under subsection (a) the Secretary of State shall consider supplementing the current training program through—
providing specialized training to create a team of “disaster specialists” to deploy immediately in a crisis; or
securing outside experts to be brought in during the initial phases to assist consular personnel.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 101–604, title II, § 206, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3084.)
- 1990Enacted · Pub. L. 101-604 · 104 Stat. 3084
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