Tactics to help free a hostage

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I'm a lower Alabama was -- experts spent twelve years -- new York city police department hostage negotiation team salad for areas with us.

He's president now the security consulting firm protective countermeasures.

Where do you begin with a guy like in this.

We'll go to first thing you really want to do at some point this is he trying to establish commonality with and you try and find something did you control that you can talk to him about that you can develop over for west.

And sometimes that's the most difficult part of it three days on.

I mean.

Does it get harder does it get easier with time -- to make moves with a freak like -- Held to one of the things that you have to understand when you deal in these kind of situations from the hostage team concept there it there -- a number of negotiators that around collecting intelligence information.

Both at a site -- where he's put -- The facility that he's using what its capabilities -- You trying get a little bit of understanding about what he's known in the community we understand that he's had some police interaction before.

So you try and figure out you know as much as you can about that.

And then you try and you -- just -- -- a day at a time that you know at this point in time you you can't rush to any type of judgment you just have to take it a step at a time.

The most important thing of course keeping that little boy safe and -- what buttons -- daddy.

Have you -- that because it's it's at such a delicate operation.

It's an incredibly complicated situation especially the fact that we've -- where where Aaron now that the child has some medical conditions -- So you have -- that might be something that you can use as a negotiating technique.

To maybe had a soft button.

But clearly it becomes a prom because now you're dealing with the welfare of the child and the welfare of the hostage taker who.

Might be tough I guess you're working with the parents all the time on this right.

The intelligence team would wind up working with the parents and collecting the data rim normally in -- set up you have a primary negotiator that's doing the talking directly with to what the hostage taker.

And then you have we call the coach was the person who was kind of them to block between the negotiator in the rest of the team.

And all of that intelligence information gets funneled into the coach coach winds up.

Sort of mentoring to a kind of -- -- thing being negotiated and telling him what tact they wanna take.

Years and years of experience behind this let's hope it pays off I'm sure we'll sell -- for a nice of you thank you.

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