The European Defence Agency organises an “Intermediate Search - Train the Trainers” course at the Italian National CIED Centre of Excellence, in Rome, running from 30 November to 18 December 2009.
Credit: Italian Army
Intermediate Search is the first level of specialist Search. Students on the course will be provided with as much of a full capability package as can be given internationally.This consists of addressing the appropriate Doctrine by giving draft concepts, tuition on procedures, Organisation by having National Structures suggested to them and draft justification documents. Materiel will be addressed by the equipment demonstration, Leadership by both introducing the relevant governance standards and by demonstrating their capabilities to their own senior officers.Personnel requirements and background will be discussed as will Facilities and Interoperability. Naturally, the major part of the course will be the Training package, but not only will they receive all the training required to make themselves fully aware of the procedures, but they will also receive all the course design documents and lesson plans allowing them to deliver the training to their own Intermediate Search Teams later.
The overall Concept is to provide a full capability package to allow the individual national representatives to return home and develop their own national capability.
On the penultimate day of the course (17 December 2009) there will be an open day where the EU Search equipment manufacturers will be invited to come and display their search equipment. This day will primarily be an open day for capability planners from across the EU to visit the course, understand the capability and have a demonstration of what their soldiers and officers have been learning. They should also have the opportunity to see what equipment is available across the EU.