I’m a former hostage negotiator. Here’s why police offered a surrender plan to fugitive Dezi Freeman
- Written by Vincent Hurley, Lecturer in Criminology, police and policing, Dept of Security Studies & Criminology, Macquarie University, Macquarie University
From the time accused police killer Dezi Freeman escaped into bushland heavily armed, Victoria’s Special Operations Group and the Negotiation Unit would have drawn up surrender plan scenarios if he decided to give himself up.
I was a former police hostage negotiator for eight years – this is how and why surrender plans are used in...
