The Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU) is a specialist unit of the
Singapore Police Force
The Singapore Police Force (SPF) is the national and principal Police, law enforcement agency responsible for the prevention of crime and law enforcement in the Republic of Singapore. It is the country's lead agency against organised crime; huma ...
under the umbrella of the
Special Operations Command. Its teams of specially trained police officers are called upon to defuse life-threatening situations through verbal crisis negotiation techniques for a non-violent resolution.
Officers from the CNU were deployed overseas for the first time to aid in the handling of victims' families and relatives as a result of the
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
References
Special Operations Command (Singapore)
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