Today we wrapped up our week-long Hostage Negotiation Course. This course is designed to be an introduction to crisis/hostage negotiations and covers topics including team structure, effective communications, psychology in negotiations, gathering intelligence, case studies, and suicide intervention. Students were also put in scenario-based training where they filled all the different roles of hostage negotiations. The course was put on by LLRMI and instructed by Lt. (Ret.) Mark Lowther who has over 30 years of experience and spent the majority of his career as a Negotiator for two Metro SWAT teams in Utah. He was also named the 2012 Crisis Negotiator of the year by the Utah Tactical Officers Association.
Aransas Pass PD now has six officers trained in these skills, and we hosted 21 other officers from across the state.
Here are some pictures from this week’s training.
Senior Corporal Segus Jolivette was shot and killed during a hostage barricade at the 2500 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard in Jeanerette.
An officer with the Jeanerette Marshal's Office attempted...
Corporal Mohamed Said was shot and killed near the intersection of Oakwood Boulevard and Dix Road while pursuing a subject at 11:38 a.m.
Officers were dispatched to a call for...
Probationary Police Officer Edgar Ordonez died after suffering from heatstroke at the NYPD outdoor shooting range at Rodman's Neck in the Bronx.
He and other probationary police officers were training at...
Corporal Robby Sumner was killed in a vehicle crash on Highway 62, one mile east of Meeker.
At 5:22 a.m., Corporal Sumner was driving an Oklahoma Department of Corrections van...
Police Officer Matthew Bowen died from injuries received from being struck by a vehicle while initiating a traffic stop.
He initiated a traffic stop at the intersection of Leisure Town Road...
Deputy Sheriff Fernando Esqueda was shot and killed from ambush after locating a vehicle wanted in connection to an aggravated assault.
The subject had become engaged in an argument with a...
K9 Archer succumbed to heatstroke after tracking a felon who fled from deputies after a traffic stop on July 4, 2024.
A deputy initiated a traffic stop on Interstate 10...
Police Officer Jamieson Ritter was shot and killed at about 1:00 am while attempting to arrest a wanted subject in the 1500 block of East 80th Street.
Officers had responded to...
Deputy Sheriff Bill Butler was shot and killed while assisting another deputy with a traffic stop near the intersection of Beecher and Lamb Road in Jefferson Township around 2:30 p.m.
The...
Youth Counselor Corey Proulx succumbed to injuries he received when he was assaulted by a juvenile inmate at the Lincoln Hills School at W4380 Copper Lake Avenue in Irma.
Shortly...
