European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By John Harbour associated press the next time some psycho grabs hostages in new chances Are hell come up against a gregarious and very patient detective named Frank Boll is the police departments expert in talk in captors into freeing their captives without Bolz is dead serious when he tells when that Bullet leaves the its its it could hit him and go through him and hit somebody it could deflect off a window and go some place it might not hit him at and it might spark him of f to kill other All these possibilities Are what Frank Bolz wants to As head of the new York City police departments hostage he is dedicated to not firing that the new York unit has been remarkably successful in the More than 80 cases it has it was formed after the 1972 Munich olympics hostage Bloodbath and is a training other police groups from the Fri to the Royal Canadian mounted from officers in Medicine hat and Moose jaw in Canada to police in Munich and Israel Bolz and others in the 70member team were trained in part by a police detective with a masters degree in pay Harvey who has a Knack for put Ting academic ideas into words police can believe besides Bolz the Basic qualification is just liking which includes a Kino of intuitive Sensi on the july 4 weekend at John Kennedy he and his negotiating team talked a Man out of his hostages in a hijacked but not without the loss of it was the first time in the four years since the hostage team was formed that there was you know he could have been taken a few times we had the Bolz but you have to wait you have to weigh the you hear people Why dont you blow the Guy away you just cant do there Are so Many Innangi so Many so Many so Many things going in different directions you have to Consi the object of to save eve Rybo Dys including the to do that requires extraordinary in negotiating with an armed Man and his be pleas the slightest thing can touch off he must of con stantly Bolz always uses the title of when talking to bolstering what he knows is a sensitive the object of to save everybody Frank Bolz the object is to save its an incongruous kind of a position for a group of cops with machine guns and sniper rifles to say were Here to help Bolz but basically we basically we re Here to alleviate a crisis a person is it takes Marathon and careful Choice of words and is a natural in the his voice reduced by polyps to a kind of Bui Bendix Natality that comes across As gentle and once we get established in a we realize we Are dealing with the anxieties of the person we sometimes have to ignore the at least it seems that because were dealing Bead to head with the if we can solve his nobody will get Bolz encounters three main types in his work the professional criminal who is interrupted and takes hostages for his the psychotic and the Ter in each if a hostage Hast been killed imme Bolz knows that the intention is not to kill and that theres a Chance to work things handling them All follows a Basic we try to contain the persons in the smallest area through the use of the emergency service Divi Sion our firearms its a Well daily Magazine disciplined group that one of the keys to our three things Are of major importance and discipline of you have to have but you must control its something they know is but you dont have to brandish we dont threaten Bolz and his colleagues have studied the minds of the frustrated people they enc Oun they build up a tremendous amount of frustration in dealing with the Bolz says of the hostage takers with personality perhaps they cant accomplish what they want to they hit a Stone Wall in every direction they and now they listen to they take hostages to get at that bit of notoriety for a Bolz lends the captor his undivided then tries to convince him that Hes accomplished his moment on Center stage and would do Best to the emotions run from very Low to very at times they Are volatile and at times docile and you have to be prepared for if the criminal is at a High pitch of so Are the police and the you have to stay scared All the Bolt if youre not youre in Yon know that what Yon do a a a a can Cost a however delicate the your tactical com Mander of the inner perimeter is under heavy Hes got to be ready to go in on an assault at a moments because if the Guy kills a a you have to Bolz has built a certain detachment into his in Long theres a certain transference of emotions and sanity demands that the negotiator build a sort of emotional and if he gets bad vibes about the he is trained to Back out and let someone More Neutral take we never lie to Bolz wed rather not answer a question than once our credibility is gone were Bolz int altogether Happy with heavy to coverage of hostage situations his wife says that if he gets they wont have to Send the chaplain around to Tell Shell have seen it on the one thing 1 try to make sure is that i never leave Home without kissing my because you never know if youll come including the Bolz holds aloft six pack while negotiating with Bank robber hostages were freed August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 13