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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".

I think this is called a hostage situation; therefore a hostage negotiator is in order. Don't we pay for one of those from our taxes.

There was no clear shot for the tazer, so I guess it is ok to use a side-arm: "He said he was unable to use the Taser on Tanner because of how the boy had been holding his mother. Not only could San Martin not get a clear shot, but Tanner kept guiding his mother toward a wall and San Martin couldn't get behind the boy, he said".

They should have tazed the mother and then tazed the son, but what do I know, I was not one of the actors in that drama.

I find it odd, the Mother was more afraid of the LE than her son who had the knife.

She was heard shouting "Don't shoot him, not don't cut me, or he's going to kill me, need I say more.

God have Mercy on our soles.

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".

Why is it that people say he had a knife, I didn't read where he had a knife. I did read a knife was involved in the fight but that may have been the other guy who had the knife?

Also, did the Para-medics administer a sedative to calm him down, could that sedative have over-reacted to shut his system down?

It is still early for all the evidence to reveal what happened, my hopes are no one is to blame.

My condolence to the Morantes family.

Has anyone stop to think, perhaps the suspect was the one who feared for his life, which is why he ran in the first place.

We know high-speed police chases endanger citizens, how is shooting at a suspect any less dangerous. Once you pull-off a round there is no control where it will stop.

Did they find GSR on his cloths other than where he was shot?

Was the suspect intoxicated?

What was the distance from the car and from the Officer when the shots were taken?

One shot in the leg at what range?

One shot in the back at what range?

Do the individuals know each other, or have mutual friends?

Shouldn't IA be investigating this shoot, not homicide, unless (they hoped) he wasn't supposed to live?