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By Chief Warrant Of¿cer Three Alejandro Aucestovar ostage/crisis situations are highly sensitive, highly dangerous situations that occur from time to time in today's world. Many installation commanders have experienced a hostage/crisis situation at least once during their command; and at some installations, these situations may take place several times a year. H until negotiations between the hostage negotiation cell and the hostage taker are well underway. During a hostage/crisis situation, the garrison commander, who also serves as the incident commander, must exercise mission command of the entire operation. The commander's decisionmaking ability is greatly improved when police, investigators, negotiators, and other involved parties can provide current and accurate information. However, in most hostage/crisis situations, valuable information—such as the number and types of weapons possessed, the number of hostages taken, the nature of injuries that have occurred, and an explanation for the motive—is extremely dif¿cult to obtain of¿cer responding to a domestic violence situation could begin communicating with the parties involved and then—if one of the parties brandishes a weapon, takes hostages, and assumes an offensive posture—the military police of¿cer, after ¿nding cover, could continue to communicate with the suspect. By maintaining communications, the military police of¿cer is better able to transfer the communications to the hostage negotiators, provide critical information to the incident commander, and decrease the danger to the SRT when it delivers the hostage phone. Simultaneously working closely with the command cell and other cells, hostage negotiators must be able to lead an extremely emotional suspect to a state in which the suspect can begin to rationalize about the situation at hand. This is The response to a hostage/crisis situation involves a not an easy task. All hostage negotiators, including CID myriad of agencies and organizations—such as the installation negotiators, are trained to establish a rapport with the suspect directorate of emergency services, the before engaging the suspect in a line garrison command, special-reaction of questioning designed to elicit "If the ¿rst responder maintains speci¿c information. However, teams (SRTs), explosive ordnance disposal personnel, the U.S. Army communications with the suspect, depending on the nature of the initial Criminal Investigation Command critical information can be more contact, establishing this rapport can (USACIDC) (commonly referred quickly retrieved and provided to often be very dif¿cult. For example, to as CID), the Federal Bureau the incident commander. The ¿rst when delivering a hostage phone of Investigation (FBI), and other during the early stages of a hostage equally interested entities—coming responder may be able to observe situation, SRT members are masked, together and working as a single unit the number, make, and model of the armored, and fully armed. In addition, to successfully resolve the situation. weapons possessed; the number, the hostage phone is often thrown These agencies generally establish a gender, and description of hostages to a barricaded suspect through an mission command cell that is capable taken; the nature of injuries that have open window. Thus, the suspect may of coordinating and controlling occurred; and the demeanor and perceive the phone delivery as a the entire operation, establishing hostile act, increasing the suspect's procedures, implementing courses body language of the hostage taker. irrational, emotional behavior and of action, anticipating hazards and This information serves as vital making it more dif¿cult for the hostage pitfalls, and executing the mission. input to the incident commander's negotiator to control communications Hostage negotiations play a vital decisionmaking process regarding and establish a rapport. role in the successful resolution of the establishment of security and the One way to minimize the situations that are a primary function perception of hostility during hostage deployment of assets." of CID, but those negotiations are phone delivery is for a ¿rst responder often handicapped by a lack of contact to initiate communications with the with the subject/suspect. suspect. For example, a military police 12 MILITARY POLICE . 19-13-1