The Use of Negotiators in Tactical Operations, Review of Negotiator Competencies and Debriefs as Example Dr Andy Young 8 hour course Instructor BIO ​ Dr. Andy Young is a retired Professor of Psychology and Counseling after 26 years, and has been a negotiator and psychological consultant with the Lubbock Police Department’s SWAT/Negotiator team since 2000. He has been on the negotiating team at the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office since 2008 and is on the team at the Texas Department of Public Safety (Texas Rangers, Special Operations Group, Region 4 & 5). He is the author of, "Fight or Flight: Negotiating Crisis on the Frontline" and "When Every Word Counts: An Insider’s View of Crisis Negotiations." He was recently added as a third author for the 6th Edition of "Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections”. He has spoken internationally at law enforcement and hostage negotiator conferences since 2014 and has had his research and writings on negotiations and critical incident response widely published. Course description: ​This course will review debriefs of callouts from the instructor's past to help illustrate how tactical teams and hostage (crisis) negotiation teams work together to resolve incidents. Incident debriefs will help review the use of negotiators for the purpose of verbal containment during an active shooter incident, how SWAT and negotiators worked together to take a subject into custody or stop a threat, and the basic principles of negotiations. Special attention will be given to the topics of influence and persuasion, negotiating with those in psychiatric crisis, and communicating threat assessment and indicators of negotiation progress to SWAT and incident command. Student equipment: Note taking material