A small team of British Police Officers was deployed to Athens and trained the Hellenic Police in hostage and crisis negotiation skills and techniques during 2002-2004 in preparation for the Olympic Games.

“The team delivered a bespoke training course identifying all the learning points from the UK experience. Minister Chrysohoides, who has personal responsibility for the 2004 Olympics and the Greek National Police, stated that his officers found the course extremely demanding but exceptionally fruitful and rewarding”

Director of Intelligence, New Scotland Yard.

Further evidence of the quality of this training was shown on 15th December 2004 when a public bus with 27 passengers was hijacked by two men and shots were fired at the police in East Athens. After a prolonged period of negotiation by these same officers all the hostages were released safely and the two hijackers surrendered. The hostage negotiators dedicated their success to the training they had received from the British Police Team.

The same core of senior officers was subsequently engaged to build and train a team of hostage and crisis negotiators in Freetown, Sierra Leone during 2004-2005.

“I am the first Inspector General of Police in the sub-Sahara Region to have a Hostage Negotiation Team trained to International Standards, a team that has the skills to intervene when critical incidents of hostage taking and kidnap occur. The instructor team has worked tirelessly during both this advanced course and the basic course and provided the Sierra Leone Police with vital equipment and training packages... I thank the team for a very professional job, well done”

Inspector General of Police, Sierra Leone

Having been engaged by both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID), to provide hostage and crisis negotiator training for police officers in both Greece and Sierra Leone, the team has now established a solid reputation for the quality of training and the services they provide.
The entire training programme in Greece was conducted through the use of interpreters with computerised dual language presentations. Whilst the programme in Sierra Leone was conducted primarily in English several exercises were held in the Creole language, again through the use of interpreters. This exercise shows that the training programme can be effectively delivered anywhere, and in any language.

"I have to say that in my 20 years within the police I have never enjoyed or got so much from a course, this is without doubt due to your outstanding efforts and style of teaching."

UK Police Officer

"The development of this training has ensured both a formal qualification and an exceptional standard of achievement for the Scottish Negotiator Coordinators"

Assistant Chief Constable, Strathclyde Police

"The last course attracted the highest evaluation scores ever received by the National Crime and Operations Faculty"

Director, National Siege Management Course

“Made a subject that could have been fairly ‘dry’ really interesting, really well delivered”

Devon and Cornwall Police officer.

“It was refreshing to do something challenging”

Lancashire Police officer.

“Folk are still talking about the training so it has made an impact”

HR manager, private industry.