Nicky Perfect says her career in police hostage negotiation taught her the greatest lessons in life.
Nicky Perfect said most people talk about "what I want" rather than "what the other person wants"In her job as a police negotiator, Nicky Perfect had seen it all, from rooftop standoffs to perilous hostage situations. She says her frontline work taught her the greatest lessons in life.
But for the last decade before retirement, she trained and worked as a crisis and hostage negotiator, travelling the world with her expertise.Nicky Perfect has given talks to ex-military personnel with her expertise in hostage negotiation She says that on her first police negotiation assignment, she was sent to deal with a recently-released prisoner who had been in a car crash and was still holding his small child."Of course none of that happened," she said.
She was the first female to become the Director of UK Training on the National Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Course, responsible for designing and training police officers across the UK. Ms Perfect, originally from Ealing, London, moved to Bedfordshire in 2015 as she wanted a "quiet life"."We all have a challenge at some stage in our life, and loneliness is one of the biggest killers in the UK," she said.
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