The city's hostage negotiator set up a mobile phone to call Hood.
An hour later, after hostage negotiators were summoned, he changed his mind and let them in, the police said.
There's more of this in the world than there are hostage negotiators.
It was what a hostage negotiator would have called a pressure question.
City police officers, including hostage negotiators, were called to the scene.
Banks ignored him and went straight over to the hostage negotiator.
The department currently has an internal hostage negotiator and its own training officer.
Maybe the person to deal with this was the hostage negotiator.
All my years as a hostage negotiator have served me well.
You'll have to wait here until our hostage negotiator can interview you.