Police and Security, Vol. 33 No. 1, 2024.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.59245/ps.33.1.4
Crisis Negotiation in Suicidal Crisis Interventions
Franjo Filipović
; Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Glavina Jelaš
; Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, Police Academy – The First Croatian Police Officer, University of Applied Sciences in Criminal Investigation and Public Security, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Pranjić
; Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Suicidal behaviur is one of the leading causes of injury and death in all age groups all around the world. Police officers often encounter people who threaten to take their own lives . Police/crisis negotiators are officers who are trained and specialized for such kinds of interventions. In fact, the majority of their interventions involve suicide attempts. Everyday police practice, as well as scientific research in this field, shows that crisis negotiation is one of the most effective police tools for solving various crisis interventions - including suicide attempts. The aim of this paper is to present effective techniques of crisis negotiators in situations of suicide attempts as well as characteristics of a successful negotiator and warning signs in the perpetrator’s behaviour. Two examples from practice and proposals for improving the crisis negotiation in Croatia are also described.
Keywords
crisis negotiation, crisis interventions, suicide, police
Hrčak ID:
315552
URI
Publication date:
10.4.2024.
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