ABSTRACT
Dealing with hostage incidents means setting up communications with the hostage takers. Also, a command post must be established and a support system created for the one person actually dealing with the perpetrators: the hostage negotiator. „ough only one person should be speaking directly with the perpetrator, he or she will be closely backed up by a secondary negotiator. „e secondary negotiator will listen to both sides of the negotiations and will feed the primary negotiator appropriate intelligence as it is passed up to the point of negotiation. He or she also will act as insulation to permit the primary negotiator room for concentration. „ere also will be a person who acts as coach and who will monitor both the primary and secondary negotiators and feed intelligence through the backup to the primary. „e coach will coordinate the eœorts of those gathering information and intelligence. While all this is happening, more intelligence gathering should be ongoing in order to formulate a negotiating strategy and tactics.
