Modern Crisis Negotiations
August 11 - 12, 2026
Will County Sheriff's Department
16911 W Laraway Rd.
Joliet, IL 60433
8am - 5pm
Hosted by the WIll County Sheriff's Department
$459.00
As a crisis negotiator, everybody is counting on you to know the right thing to say to prevent a tragic outcome. But many negotiators feel unprepared to be in the hot seat when the stakes are literally life and death. At the Savage Training Group, our instructors are active-duty negotiators who teach simple concepts that actually work. Our Modern Crisis Negotiations course gives negotiators the confidence they need to save lives.
Our instructors are team leaders on a busy urban team, so they know exactly what works and what doesn’t. They’ll share with you what techniques and equipment they used last week, not 20 years ago!
You’ll see recent body-cam video of actual incidents and work through table-top scenarios all while our expert instructors guide you.
Students Will Learn:
- How crisis negotiators can become an indispensable asset to your agency
- Modern legal issues for negotiators (eavesdropping laws, the public duty and special relationships, and more)
- Disengagement and re-engagement plans for barricade incidents
- The 5 levels of listening and the 6 "weapons" of influence
- Modern negotiating techniques
- National standard recommendations for negotiators
- …and much more
Your Instructors:
Senior Instructor James Tacchini is a Lieutenant with the San Francisco Police Department. He is a Team Leader on the department’s 50-officer Hostage/Crisis Negotiation Team. He has previously served as a full-time Officer Involved Shooting investigator and is presently a Patrol Sergeant. He is a current practitioner as well as a highly-experienced instructor. More about James
Sergeant Elizabeth “Lily” Prillinger is an active-duty sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department. She is assigned full time to the Crisis Intervention Team and is a Team Leader with the department's 50-officer Hostage/Crisis Negotiation Team. More about Lily
Payment Methods
Once you enter the student information below and click "Register", you will be taken to a checkout page where you can pay using a credit card, or you may request that an invoice be sent to your department that can be paid online or by check and sent by mail. Please note that invoices incur a $15.00 non-refundable processing fee.
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