In this book, the reader will find thirty different training scenarios that cover the gamut of mental illness and personality disorders, as well as common situations that lead otherwise ordinary people into desperation. Most of them are based on cases that one or the other of the authors have actually encountered. There are full instructions on how to set up the scenario, and how to brief the role player so that he or she plays it true-to-life. The scenarios are colorful, unpredictable, and multi-layered, and require active involvement of the secondary negotiator and the rest of the team for intelligence gathering. 

Not all barricaded or static situations, however, are truly negotiable. Some perpetrators may merely desire an audience to their crime, or someone to keep them company before committing suicide. In other cases, they are trying to set up either a ‘suicide by cop’ or an ambush. In all such cases, the negotiator serves a vital function: focusing the subject’s attention upon his or her voice to give tactical officers time and position to directly intervene to stop the crime in process...READ MORE

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