Hostage release is the completion of a taking of hostages by negotiation, deception, menace or use from deadly and not-deadly force or a combination.

For the execution of hostage releases national organs maintain particularly trained employment teams, both in the civilian and within the military range. These employment teams try to be able to use by placing different scenarios behind for all possible kinds of takings of hostages to prepare around in case of emergency a before learned tactics.

Within the civilian range the meaning from crisis staffs rose to the accomplishment of takings of hostages and their edge features (press, interests of the general public, member, follow-up assistance further and trauma accomplishment) strongly. The crisis staff is the interface between the employment line, the decision makers at police (e.g. chief of the police) as well as with acts of larger extent, in the policy (e.g. Senator of the Interiors, Minister of the Interior) and gives if necessary press conferences or imposes an information barrier. The employment line for its part establishes an advanced command post in direct proximity of the scene or in other expedient place, often with help already for it furnished employment vehicle with military hostage releases which in all rule not in the same country takes place refers the commanders existing military operations centers and control devices, from which the actions are coordinated.

Special-purpose forces for hostage release

• Europe
  • Germany
    • Sec. (level Land of the Federal Republic)
    • Mobile employment command (MEK)
    • GSG9 (level state)
    • Command of special forces (KSK) (milit.)
  • Austria
    • Cobra
  • Switzerland
    • Group diamond (KaPo Zurich)
    • Group of Enzian (KaPo Berne)
    • Group star (StaPo Berne)
    • Group scorpio (city police/StaPo Zurich)
  • Italy
    • NOCS
    • GIS
  • France
    • RAID
    • GIGN
  • Spain
    • GEO
    • GOES
    • UEI
  • Great Britain
    • SAS
    • SBS
  • The Netherlands
    • BSB
  • Poland
    • GROM
  • Russia
    • ALFA
    • OMON
    • SOBR
    • Speznas

• North America
  • The USA
    • SWAT (local)
    • HRT (FBI)
    • Delta Force
    • SEAL team 6
  • Canada
    • Special service Force

• Asia
  • South Korea
    • Special Forces

• Australia/New Zealand
  • SAS

tried and successful hostage releases

• Branch credit banks, Stockholm, Sweden, 1973
• German message, Stockholm, Sweden, 1975
• AirFrance machine, Entebbe, Uganda, 1976
• Lufthansa airplane "land hat", Mogadischu, Somalia, 1977
• US-amerik. Message, Teheran, Iran, 1980
• Iranian message, London, Great Britain, 1980
• Gladbeck, Germany, 1988
• Japanese message, Lima, Peru, 1997
• Dubrowka theatre, Moscow, Russia, 2002
• School, Beslan, Nordossetien, Russia, 2004

Literature

• January Boger, elite and special-purpose forces internationally: Development, equipment, employment. Engine book publishing house Stuttgart 1988. ISBN 3-613-01166-2
• Walter N. long, The World's elite Forces: The men, weapons and operation into the were against terrorism. Salamander Books Ltd. London 1987. ISBN 0-86101-315-8

See also

• Taking of hostages
• Hostage
• Plane hi-jacking

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