Scott Walker | A hostage negotiator on staying calm in a crisis and the many ways you can look at risk.
The Emma Guns Show
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How I Learned to Negotiate
I was a police officer back in the late 90s. I did an organised crime and public order career. And then towards the last few years of my career, I got invited to try out for the negotiation team. The next thing I know, I get selected and be woken up at 4am in the morning to race across the side of London to help resolve a kidnapping. They say practice makes perfect, but actually, practice makes permanent. It takes a long time to get to that sort of smoothness, if you like, in how you do the job. Absolutely.
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