My focus will be on the following questions. I will explain the type of incident, which category this hostage-taker falls into, and what my optimal role is in the situation. After that I will provide a plan and course of action to interact with this person. Explain the precautions I will take along with the precautions I will request the department to take. I will show what tertiary problems that I may be able to foresee in a prolong standoff and how I will address them. I will identify the sources I will use to gather information regarding the perpetrator and the specific information I would like to gather. I will identify how I would handle the situation with a very minimal amount of information; identify some probable hypothesis as to the perpetrator’s mental state, symptom presentation, and the likely outcome of the incident. Finally, I will speak to the roles you could have played in preparation for crisis incidents and how it could have benefited a department. Identify what needs to occur before I (as a psychologist) can become an integral part of the team.
The first thing I would have determined is if this is a hostage or non-hostage