He rose to become a detective inspector in 1997 and has trained as a hostage negotiator.
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Terry Waite is a humanitarian and author well known for his work as a hostage negotiator.
Incredibly, first as a hostage and later as an interpreter, Tisquantum crossed the Atlantic six times.
Using the debt ceiling as a hostage in a negotiation was unthinkable before 2011.
It is thought that Capt Phillips offered himself as a hostage in order to save his crew.
Pte Gregg Stone, 20, from Atwick, was killed during a hostage rescue mission in Helmand province in June.
The experiences of French journalist Florence Aubenas, released after five months as a hostage in Iraq, are undoubtedly disturbing.
Keenan spent more than four years as a hostage in Beirut, sharing a cell with the British journalist John McCarthy.
The SAS is perhaps best known for storming the Iranian embassy in London in 1980, after terrorists had killed a hostage.
Surrounding blocks were evacuated as authorities, including a SWAT team and a hostage negotiator, tried to work toward a peaceful resolution.
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But it would have to be proven that he wanted to influence the actions of a third party by taking a hostage.
According to reports, one police officer described a scene resembling a hostage situation, with the gunman pointing a weapon at the victims' heads.
Announcing the changes in Belfast on Friday, Attorney General Lord Goldsmith warned that the new service must not become a hostage to politics.
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But wind energy tapered off when a federal tax credit, due to expire at year's end, became a hostage of the presidential election.
The move follows the decision by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to end Mr Chavez's role as a hostage negotiator with Colombia's Farc rebels.
Was this supposed to be a hostage situation that went wrong?
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Richard Phillips reportedly offered himself as a hostage to the pirates during an attack Wednesday on the U.S.-flagged container ship Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean.
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The failed French raid at the weekend to try and free a hostage in Somalia held by al-Shabab reflects the danger that those individuals may be in.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a hostage negotiating team.
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So there we are, something of a hostage to fortune.
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He has described himself as a hostage to competing factions.
MSPs would make a minority administration a hostage to Labour's left wing, which is one reason why Mr McAllion has announced his preference for Labour to go it alone.
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And the fact that it allows for this dollar-for-dollar requirement that is completely confected, but has created a hostage situation in terms of our economy, it even does that.
In trials where teams of four soldiers had to rescue a hostage, head-up displays relayed information visually and vibrotactile vests gave soldiers navigational information about where to go during an ambush.
Had the officer known there was a hostage, teams of officers with surveillance and communications equipment would have surrounded the house before an attempt was made to enter it, Inspector Lack said.
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Vallandingham was killed on the fourth day of the occupation, after his inmate captors had flown a bed sheet out the windows threatening to kill a hostage if certain demands weren't met.
Four people were dead including the gunman following a hostage-taking incident on Saturday in Aurora, Colorado, the same town where a man shot dead 12 people and wounded 58 more at a movie theater last July.
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Colombia's Inspector General announced that his office has compiled a list of charges against Senator Piedad Cordoba in relation to allegations that she collaborated with the FARC outside of the parameters of her role as a hostage release negotiator.
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