Negotiation is really the heart of a lot of these hostage or barricaded subject situations. |
The reason negotiators can be so important is simply because as an entry team we have to feed off the negotiators for what we can't see and don't know. |
We rely on them, pretty much completely, to basically determine when and if this guy is actually going to calm himself or to relinquish weapons, to let hostages leave the location or to actually give himself up. |