ABSTRACT
A bomb technician is a highly trained and skilled asset, whose role should be in response to items determined to be potentially explosive. The activity in a threat operation may deplete personal energy, tiring, and losing mental sharpness necessary for safe functioning when conducting render-safe operations. Indeed the face-to-face threat, long dismissed as a foolish attempt to frighten or extort, has gained a much greater level of gravity as the public sees suicide bombers and surrogate bombers. Fire and police personnel lack that knowledge; to them many items would be suspicious which site personnel will know to be innocuous. Bomb technicians are even a worse choice, as their training directs them to considering any such item a threat. Bomb technicians appreciate as much complete information on conditions and intelligence as possible; it must be recognized that the decisions of the bomb squad are based upon training and national guidelines, and no attempts should be made to in hence their decisions.
