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The psychological aspects of hostage-taking
Straka, Karel ; Boukalová, Hedvika (advisor) ; Trojanová, Hana (referee)
This bachelor thesis consists of a theoretical part, followed by research design. In the theoretical part, hostage-taking and its historical development is defined at first. Further, the main attention is paid to the psychological aspects of this phenomenon. Types of perpetrators' motivation, available typologies and methods of incident planning are described. This is followed by explanation of the crisis negotiation, personality dispositions of negotiators, psychologist's role in the negotiations and the impact of media on negotiations. Attention is then shifted to the victims of hostage-taking. The thesis describes the dynamics of their experience, the Stockholm syndrome and the impact of incidents on victims. Research design aims to create and verify the appropriateness of a screening method for estimating the risk of developing post-traumatic stress in victims of hostage-taking.
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Negotiating tactics and their application in the IRS.
BAREŠ, Jaroslav
The Integrated Rescue System secures many activities related to protection of lives, health and property of citizens. The system employs workers that, through performing given jobs, enter into relationships with persons in emergency situations; such situations require special procedures among which you can find negotiating. The thesis at hand describes how negotiating strategies are applied in the negotiation process. It delivers an assessment of the current state of negotiating strategies among the employees of the IRS bodies, especially the level of their awareness of using such negotiating strategies in emergency negotiations with aggressive persons and persons demonstrating suicide intents. The thesis examines the frequency at which the IRS employees must face emergency situations that involve emergency negotiations, and it identifies the extent to which these officers are ready to cope with such situations. Subsequently, the thesis compares strategies employed in negotiations pursued from operations centres and those pursued while carrying out the duties under normal circumstances and in emergency situations; with regard to the individual IRS bodies. The thesis discusses the development of these strategies concerning the development of the society and culture. Through quantitative research based on questionnaires and additional interviews with negotiators-specialists, the thesis examines practical knowledge of the topic among the members of the IRS bodies when it comes to application of negotiating strategies. The target research group comprised of the IRS employees proportionally representing the Police of the Czech Republic, Fire Rescue Service, and Emergency Medical Service in the Region of South Bohemia. The outcome of the thesis shows that the members of the IRS bodies, except the police negotiators, do not have any significant experience with negotiating as a particular activity. Professional training improves communication skills, but on the theoretical level only. Most of the interviewed IRS employees showed interest in improving their negotiating strategies and they would welcome a document listing basic mistakes that occur while communicating with an aggressive person or a person demonstrating suicide intent. An overview of elementary mistakes that occur in such type of communication has been elaborated and is recommended for distribution among the IRS bodies.
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The level of readiness of branches(especially police negotiators)for a threat of terrorist attack on the airport in Planá nearby České Budějovice.
MACH, Vladimír
The level of readiness of police branches (especially police negotiators) for the threat of terrorist attack on the airport in Planá nearby České Budějovice. This thesis is focused on the preparedness of the security forces, especially police negotiators for the possible threat of terrorist attack on the newly constructed international airport in Planá nearby České Budějovice. There are defined the basic concepts and features regarding the terrorism, security forces and crisis negotiations. The goal of my thesis is to find out the level of preparedness of security forces for a possible terrorist attack on the airport in Planá nearby České Budějovice. A part of my work are interviews with twenty policemen, members of the special police team-emergency squad of the Regional Police Directorate of the South-Bohemian Region, six of which are members of the crisis negotiation team.
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