RESOLUTION NO. 240693

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Sponsor: Councilperson Nathan Willett

Recognizing and honoring the Kansas City Police Department Crisis Negotiation Team for their competition and victory in the 13th annual Missouri Association Crisis Negotiation Challenge, in Columbia, Missouri.

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WHEREAS, on May 30, 2024, the KCPD Crisis Negotiation Team competed in the 13th annual Missouri Association Crisis Negotiation Challenge. Nine teams, including Missouri Highway Patrol and various localities from across the state, traveled to compete. The competition has a scenario, judges who grade the teams, and role players and facilitators who manage the role players and the intel information. The competition is complex and a great training tool for Crisis Negotiation teams; and

WHEREAS, the scenario for this challenge was very difficult. In the past, teams would negotiate with one or two subjects during the challenge. This scenario consisted of nine different role players with various demands and personalities. Each team would negotiate with nine different role players over the phone, which usually lasted thirty minutes to an hour per role player; and

WHEREAS, some negotiations resulted in a peaceful surrender, while others resulted in the role player hanging up on the Negotiator, refusing to answer the phone when called back, and refusing to surrender. Some of the conversations were calm and others were highly aggressive, with threats and demands. Each role player had different reasons for barricading within the area. Some had children, some did not, some had weapons and some did not; and

WHEREAS, each team is graded on various categories. Intel development, threat assessments, rapport with subjects, identification of subjects, teamwork, leadership by the team leader, peaceful surrenders, and upkeep of intel information. The teams are scored one through ten on each area and the average score is fifty to sixty points. The Kansas City Police ...

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