Hostage Liberation

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The hostage rescue is the termination of a hostage situation through negotiation, deception, threat or use of lethal and non-lethal force or a combination thereof.

Mission principles

In order to carry out hostage liberation, state organs maintain specially trained emergency teams, both in the civilian and in the military sector. These task forces try to prepare themselves for all kinds of hostage-taking by simulating different scenarios in order to be able to use a previously practiced tactic in an emergency .

In the civil sector, the importance of crisis teams for dealing with hostage-taking and their side effects (press, public interest, relatives, follow-up care and trauma management) has risen sharply. The crisis team is the interface between the operational management , the decision-makers in the police (e.g. police chief ) as well as in the case of acts of a larger scale in politics (e.g. interior senator , interior minister ) and, if necessary, holds press conferences or imposes an information block . The operations command, for its part, erects a forward command post in the immediate vicinity of the crime scene or at another suitable location, often with the help of emergency vehicles that have already been set up for this purpose.

In the case of military hostage liberations, which as a rule do not take place in the same country, the commanders refer to existing military operations centers and command facilities, from which the actions are coordinated.

Special forces for hostage rescue

  • North America

Known hostage liberations

See also

literature

Web links

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