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Intended Audience: Emergency 911 Call takers and Dispatchers

Course Summary: The student will learn strategies similar to a Crisis Negotiator, but from the dispatch standpoint using methods for handling callers in different crisis situations.  This 1 day course provides an engaging and effective training model for the new and veteran dispatcher.

Description: Managing the mental health crisis has become a very complex issue in law enforcement that often is judged by others and not understood by many.  This course is designed for law enforcement communications personnel who may be called upon to deal with a person in crisis.  Topics to be covered include enhancement of our active listening skills, techniques in response to hostage/barricade incidents and intervention techniques for crisis/suicide situations.  Our focus throughout the training will be on the integration of understanding different types of mental illness through the lens of interactive role-play.   Learning Objectives:

• Develop a foundational understanding of the origins and causality of mental illness
• Focus on developing insight into the major forms of mental illness that law enforcement encounters
• Develop practical and rapid assessment techniques for specific behaviors impacted by mental illness i.e. psychotic, manic, suicidality, PTSD and others
• Established effective intervention strategies for rapid information collection, decision making and de-escalation

Instructor:  Jonathan W. Bundt started his career as an Internal Security Team Member and Anti-Terrorism Instructor with the Israel National Police Force in the 80s and 90s, He came to the United States in 1993 for graduate school, and became licensed as a mental health professional. He has spent the past 25 years working in the behavioral science, law enforcement, and emergency management fields specializing in response, consulting and training.  Specialized in training hostage/crisis negotiators and officers on how to respond to mental health crisis.

Register:                    Limited enrollment          

September 26, 2017 @ St. Louis Park Police Dept.

8:00am-5:00pm, 8 credits, POST # 9038-0182
Instructor: Jonathan Bundt, M.A.
Cost: $125/Member and $150/Non Member
To register go to http://www.regonline.com/ATOM2017

Upcoming mandated training for all MN Police Officers (video)

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DATES: October 16-18 2017  HOURS: 830-5PM
LOCATION: Rasmussen College Eagan Campus
3500 Federal Drive,  Eagan MN,  55122.
COST:  $425/Officer
To register go to http://www.regonline.com/ATOM2017

This course is designed to enhance the skills of newly trained and seasoned negotiators. An interactive and scenario based training will look at reviewing key elements and skills of the negotiator and the negotiating team. At the same time, advance techniques will be taught with a focus on integration of current practices. This course is designed to provide students with individual feedback that can enhance performance.

Since advance training is all customized, please contact instructor, Jonathan Bundt, 952-922-0422, and let him know of any specific topic you would like to see covered over the three days.

Course Prerequisite – Basic course in crisis and hostage negotiations is required.

Training Objectives (All training objectives are subject to change.)
Review of active listening skills and practice
Advance communication skills
Leading issues in today’s crisis negotiations
Personality types and motivation of a suspect
Suicide intervention
Advance negotiation team dynamics
Enhance information flow
Advance bargaining models
Overview of the Tactical Operations and integration
Cultural considerations during hostage negotiations
What happens when you need to break the rules?
Role-playing specific to above objectives

Training Method
Training will use lecture, discussion, videos tapes, incident review, and role playing with class members and professional actors. Some of the videos to be used are of recent interviews with actual negotiations and interviews of offenders that are incarcerated for their hostage taking situations. Class size will be kept to a minimum size to enhance the trainee experience. Preferred number: 15 to 18 participants.

Instructor Bio:
Jonathan has worked in the behavioral science and law enforcement field for close to 30 years with specializing in disaster and crisis response. In the mid-80s he moved to Israel where he served in the Israeli Defense Forces and then was a Chief Inspector with the Israeli National Police-Border Patrol Division where he was initially part of the elite anti-terrorism hostage rescue unit called Yamam. He then became a trainer in the national anti-terrorism school and finally worked in the behavioral science unit. He returned to the US for graduate studies in psychology and organization development/training. Jonathan runs his own consulting company that specializes in dealing with disaster and crisis planning, exercise and response. Some of his work includes working as a consultant to the Minneapolis Police-SWAT as a trainer and on-scene support advisor where he specialize in training crisis/hostage negotiators and critical incident response. He has been involved in responding to over 2000 local, regional, and national incidents. Much of his work has been involved in all elements of dealing with workplace violence from prevention strategies, threat assessments, response and recovery. He regularly provides consultation and training services to the private sector, hospitals, EMS, police and fire departments, state departments of Corrections, Public Health, Human Services, Public Safety, and Emergency Management. He is a certified emergency manager in the state of MN and involved as the coordinator of a new model of responding to called 3Echo: Hostile Event Response that is hosted through the Metropolitan Emergency Service Board.