Description: This course provides enhanced knowledge and skills for patrol officers and supervisors responding to potential barricades, hostage situations, and high-risk suicides. Negotiators will discuss initial response to negotiable incidents, fundamentals of active listening, and negotiation techniques for circumstances that lead to patrol beginning a conversation with the suspect.
Core Competencies:
- Participants will be able to decide upon prescribed courses of action or techniques that will provide a greater level of safety in a variety of environments, events and situations.
Course Objectives:
- Students will learn the de-escalation model
- Students will understand the command triangle
- Students will be introduce to the eight Active Listening Skills
- Students will practice Crisis Negotiation roles and dynamics
- Students will discuss Suicide Intervention Strategies
Instructional Methods:
- Role playing scenarios
- Video analysis
- Student practice
Who Should Attend:
Patrol officers and supervisors interested in learning negotiation strategies and negotiation team dynamics.
Course Requirements: Commissioned Officers only