Kidnapping and Abduction: Minimizing the Threat and Lessons in Survival
Language: English
Pages: 222
ISBN: 1482228157
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Terrorist groups and organized crime cartels pose an increasing threat of kidnapping throughout many regions in the word. At the same time, international travel has become more commonplace for both business and leisure purposes. Kidnapping and Abduction: Minimizing the Threat and Lessons in Survival provides a practical guide on the precautions travelers can take to avoid being kidnapped or derail a kidnapping attempt in progress. In the event this cannot be avoided, the book supplies advice on how to ensure survival during captivity.
Readers will learn:
- The basic elements of kidnapping and abduction
- The motivations and mechanisms of kidnappers
- The hotspots where kidnapping/hostage taking is prevalent
- Vehicles best suited for avoidance of kidnap threat and proposals for up-armoring an existing vehicle
- How to recognize immediate threats and precautions to be taken in assessing threat level
- The types of weapons most favored by kidnappers and their threat level
- Available bullet-resistant materials and their use in stab- and bullet-resistant vests
- Resistance methodologies and weapons for self-defense
- Legislation in various countries pertaining to the carrying of weapons
- How to survive long-term abduction if kidnapped
- How to best assist the authorities once released
Essential reading for anyone living, doing business, or traveling abroad or at sea, this practical handbook reveals tactics that best enable those vulnerable to protect against an attack―or in the worse-case scenario, increase their chances for survival.
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In working order. 47 Kidnapping and Abduction • Make sure that the lock on the room door functions properly and that there is an internal method of locking the door, such as a security door chain or sliding bolt, as well. If none is p resent, a rubber wedge placed under the door or even a chair placed underneath the handle is effective in securing the door from the inside. • Make sure any doors to adjacent rooms are locked and secure. • Ensure that the curtains close completely. • If a.
Vehicle length for every 5 mph (8 km/h) of the vehicle’s speed. At 5 mph (8 km/h), two seconds will equate to one vehicle length; at 50 mph (88 km/h), it equates to ten vehicle lengths; and so on. Allowance of additional seconds must be added to allow for abnormal environmental conditions, that is, snow, ice, and heavy standing water. The second rule states that a safe space must be maintained at the sides of the vehicle. This is called the “doors-width rule,” and basically it translates to.
Shot and killed, the officer’s own gun is the offending weapon. As such, many law enforcement or paramilitary agencies will set their own requirements for armor performance and protection based on their own firepower—ensuring that the armor will at least protect against their own weapons’ firepower. There are many standards for body armor. For example, the Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB) in the United Kingdom and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in the United States.
Civilization that can be more traumatic than the captivity period itself. The transfer from brutality, isolation, near starvation, and a constant fear of execution to celebrity status, a clamoring press, and the concomitant sensory overload has led to suicide. At this stage, the victim must be very careful, as the world’s press will be outside the door, clamoring for interviews that must be studiously avoided until debriefing has finished. Information released at an inappropriate time could.
The local information will have been gleaned via the police, who will have run background checks on the kidnappers. The finite detail required by the negotiator can, however, be learned only by talking to the kidnappers themselves. AIMS OF THE NEGOTIATOR The first aim of the negotiator will be to discover the following: • Who the kidnappers are • How many victims are being held • Whether the kidnappers are terrorists, jihadists, religious fanatics, or simple gang members 175 Kidnapping and.