This course will review debriefs of callouts from the instructor's past to help illustrate how tactical teams and hostage (crisis) negotiation teams work together to resolve incidents. Incident debriefs will help review the use of negotiators for the purpose of verbal containment during an active shooter incident, how SWAT and negotiators worked together to take a subject into custody or stop a threat, and the basic principles of negotiations. Special attention will be given to the topics of influence and persuasion, negotiating with those in psychiatric crisis, and communicating threat assessment and indicators of negotiation progress to SWAT and incident command.

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