User profile: GunslingerA10

Born and raised in the USA.

Homegrown.

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Seminar Title: Hostage Negotiations - Phase I & II

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Introduction To Crisis Negotiations: This session will examine the roots of Hostage / Crisis Negotiations. The students will learn the Why of negotiating and the numerous ways that a Crisis Negotiation Team should be utilized.

Tactical Use Of Negotiators: The role of the Negotiator is misunderstood in many Tactical circles. The student will learn the value of Negotiators in deploying the tactical option.

Team Structure: The structuring of a crisis negotiation team and the importance of command personnel, their understanding and support will be discussed. (This structure works for small and large agencies alike)

Basics Of Negotiating: The function and duties of each team member including command personnel will be explained and discussed.

Communication Skills: The student will be given an in-depth overview of Communication Skills. Both conversational speaking and listening are the tools of communication. (Active Listening Skills) The importance of being able to listen well is a necessary tool for the successful negotiator.

Psychology Of Negotiations: In this segment students will discuss in laymen's terms the mental disorders that are prevalent during crisis situations. Identifying the mental disorder and dealing with it in a crisis situation.

Terrorism and the Negotiator: Can we negotiate with a terrorist? We will discuss the different methods of negotiating with terrorist. An understanding of the ideology and culture of terrorist. Can we negotiate with TERRORIST?

Case Studies: Each and every hostage and crisis situation is different. The cases we will review are a diverse sampling of the instructors experiences. A burglary which turns into a hostage situation, a bank hold-up goes bad and an international hijacking.

Dealing With The Media: In this segment the students will learn the value of forming a working alliance with the media rather than an adversarial relationship.

Suicide Intervention: Can you talk a person into committing suicide? The myths and the truth about suicide will be discussed.
The Resolution: Sometimes our success is bittersweet, we will discuss the Good and Bad side of a resolution.

The Aftermath: Negotiator Stress, second guessing and Monday morning quarterbacking will be discussed.

Role Plays: Both instructors will guide the students through the tense and very stressful job of negotiating with various types of Hostage Takers and Emotionally disturbed people. Students will get a chance to participate as a team member and use the most advanced electronic equipment that is on the market today.

It pains me to write this post, for some will cry foul and others will cry in agreement. More painful than its tone with which I take is the fact that our citizens are becoming at risk, more and more each day. Not by criminal activities but by the very servants we employ, painful as that may be, it is near as painful as the travesties from lost lives.

"One-bad-apple-won't-spoil-the-whole-bunch": Meaning- you must separate the bad from the good. If one bad apple is left unattended, it will spoil the apples next to it and cause a snowball effect which will not end until the whole barrel has become rotted and spoiled.

Intervention is sorely needed to correct this recriminate police culture of "Gillespie's Marauders" that is going unchecked by an ombudsman or outside independent agency.

Once again, it pains me dearly to have to point out that a cultural shift is in order within the Valleys LE and until then us citizens are playing 'BINGO" waiting for our number to be up.

I Love LV and all the people here. If we don't correct our actions now we will be lost in the near future. Our actions today are what will make LV tomorrow. We can no longer depend on what LV was, rather we must dig deep to create what LV is becoming. Stop the Hate, petty attitudes are not what gave birth to LV, nor is it what LV is all about.

LV needs to reacquaint itself with charity, tolerance, selfless service, and most of all "Home Means Nevada".