ARE YOU READY FOR A SPECTACULAR SEMINAR?

THE BOARD IS READY

2009 Seminar will be in

Huron, SD

at the

Crossroads Hotel / Huron Event Center

September 20, 21, and 22.

You can register by E-mailing:

connie@southdakotapoa.com

Training Schedule for Tuesday Sept. 22nd:

Dominick J. Misino, Detective (Retired)

     Detective Dominick J. Misino (retired) is a 22 year veteran of the New York City Police Department. During his career with the NYPD he served in the Special Operations Division for 18 years. His background is varied and diverse. He served as the primary hostage negotiator for his last 6 years with the NYPD. The NYPD negotiation team consists of 120 trained negotiators. His responsibilities included training new members to this team and scheduling and retraining existing negotiators. As primary negotiator he has personally been involved in over 200 hostage / barricade incidents. He has trained law enforcement personnel from over 500 various departments and agencies. He has also trained officers from numerous foreign countries.

     Prior to his assignment with the Hostage Team, he was assigned to the Emergency Service Unit. His position there developed into Head Instructor for Tactical Operations. In this position he instituted and developed training for the 400-member unit. He trained and was a member of the NYPD counter terrorist team and sniper team. His negotiation skills were initiated under fire. During his time with the Emergency Service Unit he had the opportunity to negotiate with all types of people, from people with mental disorders threatening to jump off of bridges to trying to talk out trapped and barricaded suspects. He trained numerous SWAT teams and military counter-terrorist teams from the US and abroad. His experiences with the Emergency Service Unit became a valuable asset in bringing the Emergency Service Unit and the Hostage Negotiation Team together.

     He developed joint training between these units and established a valuable working relationship. Two of his most note worthy negotiations were: the negotiated release of 105 people aboard a hijacked Lufthansa aircraft. The suspect was convinced to allow the pilot to land at JFK international airport and then surrender to Dominick on the runway. The second, a bank holdup gone bad. Three hostages, 2 bad guys, and a 12 hour grueling hostage negotiation which ended in the safe release and surrender of all involved.

Hostage

Talk Tactics and Negotiation Skills for First Responders

Instructor: Dominick J. Misino

Course Overview:

First Responder Procedures: When you pull upon a critical incident (hostage situation), do you try and communicate with the hostage taker? Who do you notify? Does your agency have a negotiation team or are you the one who has been selected by default? These and many more questions will be discussed.

Introduction To Crisis Negotiations: This session will examine the roots of Hostage / Crisis Negotiations. The students will learn the WHY of negotiating and the numerous ways that a Crisis Negotiation Team should be utilized.

Tactical Use Of Negotiating Skills: The roll of the NEGOTIATOR is misunderstood in many TACTICAL circles. The student will learn the value of Negotiators in deploying the tactical option.

First Responder Communication Skills: The student will be given an in-depth overview of Communication Skills. Both conversational speaking and listening are the tools of communication. (Active Listening Skills) The importance of being able to listen well is a necessary tool for the successful negotiator.

Psychology Of Negotiations: In this segment students will discuss in laymen’s terms the mental disorders that are prevalent during crisis situations. Identifying the mental disorder and dealing with it in a crisis situation.

Case Studies: Each and every hostage and crisis situation is different. The cases we will review are a diverse sampling of the instructor experiences. A burglar whom turns into a hostage situation, a bank hold-up goes bad and an international hijacking.

Suicide Intervention: Can you talk a person into committing suicide? The myths and the truth about suicide will be discussed.

The Resolution: Sometimes our success is bittersweet, we will discuss the GOOD and BAD side of a resolution.

The Aftermath: Stress, second guessing and Monday morning quarterbacking will be discussed.

Upon completion you will have gained the knowledge:

(1) First Responder Procedures
(2) Talk Tactics for Defusing Critical Incidents
(3) Understand the Crisis Team Structure
(4) Dynamics of Negotiations
(5) Value of Using Trained Police as Opposed to (Clergy, Politicians, Mental Health Professionals or Family Members)
(6) Psychology in Hostage Negotiation
(7) Communicating with People in Crisis (Bosses and Politicians Included)
(8) Effects of Stress on Law Enforcement Officers

First Responder (Talk Tactics) training is a valuable tool. All professionals who have to deal with people in crisis and crisis situations can better serve their agency and community by being prepared to the highest levels.

Agencies large and small can only benefit by having their personnel better trained to deal with crisis situations immediately. The action a first responder takes can save lives; training in this area is a MUST.

First Responders are not expected to be professional negotiators BUT they are expected to take some action to bring the situation to a safe conclusion. Many crisis situations can be ended peacefully with the mere tactic of calm goal orientated conversation. A first responder can start to calm a subject while waiting for professional negotiators.

What about the many communities that do not have trained negotiators. A patrol officer pulls upon a scene and finds a distraught man in a convenient store holding hostages. The man says he wants to talk to his wife and he will end this situation.

Question:
Does the officer find the mans wife and let him talk to her?

Answer:
NO

Reason:
Although it seems on the surface, to someone who is not trained this would be a quick way to bring this situation to a safe conclusion. Without knowing the total relationship between the man and his wife allowing him to talk to her can be a fatal mistake. We have learned from numerous hostage situations that one of the most dangerous and volatile situations are the domestic one. History and experience has shown us that when a spouse is asking for his wife during these types of situations he is preparing to either commit revenge suicide or homicide and then suicide. The subject wants to punish his wife forever by making it all her fault.

This seminar will help you and your first responders make your community a safer place to live and work.

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