Chapter 124: Hostage stand up 1 (1/2)

“First of all, we will block the surrounding area to surround the hostage-taking criminals. Groups of two people, block the streets so that no one can come.”

Garma, the Chrysanthemum knight advisor, agreed to this instruction, and he selected and dispatched qualified personnel.

Another reason for completely blocking the surrounding roads is not only to prevent the criminal from running away. By isolating the criminal from the curious and other people, it is to recognize that there is no other party to negotiate other than us, and the current situation cannot be improved without contacting us.

This is the basis of psychological warfare.

It also has the significance of diverting attention from the hostage by directing the criminal’s attention to us.

“Next, Chris. Surround the building from all four sides of the building with groups of two and ask for surveillance. Chris, you take a position in front of the criminal with the SVD (Dragunov sniper rifle).”

“I understand!”

There are two types of fire in the sniper rifle: bolt action and semi-automatic. Bolt action is better when accuracy is a priority. However, it is useful to prepare a semi-automatic spare. In most operations, it is rare for a single shot to become fragmented. For this reason, it is often used with semi-automatic guns equipped with 5 or 20 magazines.

Chris secured personnel with the help of Garma.

Surround and monitor the building from four locations. The reason why we made a pair of two people is that this world has no communication equipment. If there is any change, we have assigned human resources to come immediately.

In manga, anime, drama and other entertainment, snipers often shoot – but there are few opportunities in the real world.

For example, in the case of special police, it is the priority to rescue the hostages safely, but “criminal arrest” is also an important purpose.

For this reason, snipers often shoot criminals in the production of movies, comics, and anime, but in reality, there are few such opportunities. This is because snipers are mainly surveillance and do not necessarily have to kill the criminal.

The sniper tells allies details about the number and movement of the criminal, the characteristics and types of weapons, the presence or absence of bombs and traps, and the characteristics that distinguish the criminal from the hostage.

In this way, the mission of “surveillance”, that is the task to gather and convey information as the eyes of the hostage team to negotiate with the criminal and the tactical team to rush into the building.

Even if you can shoot and kill the criminal, if you miss that there is a trigger bomb inside the building after the death of the criminal, it will explode, and all the hostages will die.

For that reason, it seems that people who think that simply shooting the culprit is good-first of all, it is not suitable for such a rescue unit.

According to the testimony of a person involved in the selection of members of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), the selection of candidates seems to be careful.

This is because a person who is bloody or enjoys shooting is not needed as a rescue team member. The predisposition required for the members is that they can make a good judgment and can withstand heavy pressure.

Even more surprising, if the sniper is ready, the sniper will not fire unless other rushing units are ready to take control of the enemy. Emphasis is always placed on cooperation with other units.

Also, when monitoring a common single-family house in my previous world, the four sides of the building are monitored by a pair of snipers and observers. In some cases, they act in pairs to monitor their opponents for a long time, maintaining their concentration and attention, and changing roles at a certain time.

The instructions I gave were put into practice accurately. Then the criminal was locked in, and the encirclement that could not escape had been completed.

Then I took the next step:

“”Adviser Garma, please negotiate with the criminal. Think only about prolonging the time, so as not to irritate in any way. And, please let the remaining members find the people who know the inside of the building where the criminal is and bring them here. I need a diagram of the interior of the building.”

“Oh! All right, let’s do it.”

Garma gave instructions to the remaining members and removes the equipment. In other words, he looked without weapons nor armor. This was to insist on no resistance and not to irritate the criminal.

While Garma was negotiating with the criminal and earning time, we moved on to the next preparation.

We had a tactical team meeting to coordinate a strategy to charge into the room.

With the help of the members of the group, they brought people who know the inside of the building where the criminal was holed up. We made a sketch of the interior from their mouths.

The location in the building was represented by color and number to prevent misidentification. For example, the front was white, the back was black, the left side was green, and the right side was red. -This cut it down a little.

For example, “Criminal tango “Green One”, it means “The criminal appeared on the first floor on the left side” (if the left is specified as green, the right as blue, the back as yellow, etc.).