The Spaghetti House, Balcombe Street, the Iranian Embassy ... three London incidents in recent years in which police hostage negotiating teams have been in action. But the principles and practices in use in London were pioneered by the New York police, after the killings at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. Since that time, Captain Frank Bolz has been in charge of 70 New York cops specially trained to handle hostage situations. He has led his team in 200 seiges without losing a single hostage, negotiator, or even captor.
This documentary film portrays FRANK BOLZ and his men in action in March - statistically New York's busiest month for the seizure, forcible restraint and ransom of hostages.
Producer ROGER MILLS
Director PATRICK TURLEY
(A documentary programme, Forty Minutes, relates the story, partly told by Frank Bolz , of hi-jack and murder on a coach to Maine: Thursday at 9.30)