Counter Kidnap Training

Introduces students to the global threat of kidnapping and aids in the development of planning, preparation and coping strategies.

Includes:-

• Entering into the High Risk Environment: Planning your stay in an unpredictable climate; Understanding threats; Profiling dangers; Development of situational awareness; Identifying pre-contact cues.
  
  

• The Psychology of the Kidnapper: Types of kidnapper; Terrorism and kidnapping; Psychopathic kidnappers; Kidnapping as a crime.
  
  

• The Kidnapping Event: Escape and evasion; Dynamic risk assessments; Preparing for the kidnapping event; Anti-ambush and immediate action vehicle drills.
  
  

• The Psychology of the Kidnapping Event: The immediate stress reaction; Decision making under fire; Muscle memory; Attentional processing; Assessment of threats; Information selection and processing.
  
  

• Surviving the hostage experience: Emotions of the hostage; Profiling the outcome; The escape scenario; Applying a focused response; Maintaining the will to survive; Reading the captor; Stockholm syndrome and the effects of long term captivity.
  
  

• Coming Home: Surviving the rescue attempt; Post-kidnapping psychology; Effects of trauma; Effects on the ones left behind; Coping and readjustment strategies.