What do you do when kidnapped or taken hostage?

A trained survival mindset is your best weapon… The Hostage Survival Training Centre provides you with tools before the lightning strikes! … your survival starts here!

Our Packages
Hostage Survival Training
Marksman's Nest
RLPS
Missing Children South Africa
Who gets kidnapped

What Is At Stake?

Who Gets Kidnapped?

Ordinary citizens, wealthy families and individuals, learners and students, high-profile government representatives, employees of multinationals, foreign service personnel, politicians, tourists, defence personnel deployed in high-risk areas, correctional services staff, employees of banks, aviation industry staff, fuel station attendants and many others, are current and future victims of kidnappings and hostage-taking.

There are three basic groups of kidnappers leading to hostage situations: professional, criminal and political.

Most hostages have long been selected and are being watched!

Our Training Packages

Package 1

Package 1

Hostage Survival
Training in hostage strategies includes surveillance detection, surviving a kidnapping/abduction, minimizing exploitation, surviving internment, personal security awareness, sexual assault, and carjacking.

Surviving a Shooter on the Rampage Situation
Preparation for an unlikely event or being involved in an Active Shooter Situation. Rehearsal of your Plan of Action in case you are in an Active Shooter Situation.

Safe Travel
This training program will help you learn ways to make yourself an unattractive target for thieves and potential hostage-takers.

Duration: 3 days

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Package 2

Package 2

Recognizing and Preventing Workplace Violence
Developing a mindset of awareness for Workplace Violence, and important aspects of Commitment to Action.

Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking (its impact on your workplace)
Recognizing the signs of intimate partner violence. Common myths surrounding intimate partner violence. Understanding the full range of impact on the workplace. Ways to help victims get the support they need.

Duration: 1 day

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Package 3

Package 3

Countering Human Trafficking
Recognizing human trafficking victims, traffickers and their mode of operation, courses of actions for victims.

Identifying & Countering Identity Fraud
Identity security issues, recognizing identity crime, courses of action to counteract the crime.

Duration: 1 day

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Watch: Hostage Survival Overview

Our Results

“The reality is that the crime scene in our country has changed. This type of training is of utmost importance. In a country where is life is constantly challenged, such training can mean the difference between life and death. Hostage survival training will definitely assist a person to cope with it better.”
A. de Wet Port Elizabeth
“This training is very important to everyone. It might happen that a person is involved in a situation where it is then required of one to handle such situations. This training is good for the whole family”
Simon Mkhize Bloemfontein
“Kidnapping for Ransom is big business today, many of us are high risk targets and we should all receive training of this nature, it can make a difference in the mind-set of the trained and un-trained person wrt hostage survival training. The trained individual will reflect and recall on his training, thus allowing him/her to plan actions and demeanour in order to survive.”
Solomzi Skosana Johannesburg
“When looking at the current world trend, the question relevance becomes irrelevant! There is no price that can be too much to equipping someone with a skill that can only contribute towards the saving of lives and future successes! The relevance of NHSTC Hostage Survival Training to SANDF is unquestionable, and perhaps even overdue”.
Capt G. Coetzee Bloemfontein
“The material presented for use during the training was of a very high standard! The material is relevant and boasts some of the former hostage situations. They use it very well towards enhancement of the learning experience”
T.H Molekane Bethlehem

FAQs

HSTC is where you are. In keeping with the latest service provision modalities, HSTC was initially a fixed-location training centre, but has acquired a mobile training capability which allows it to take training to clients throughout South Africa, the African continent and surrounding Small Island Nations. This mobile training dispensation is a Unique Differentiator for the Hostage Survival Training Centre.

Anyone. Anyone can become a victim of kidnapping and hostage-taking, from ordinary private citizens, defense and security personnel, staff of correctional institutions, journalists, government representatives, politicians, parliamentarians, staff of corporates, etc.

Definitely. HSTC offers a suite of related training programmes in addition to hostage survival, and these are customized for the specific needs and requirements of the client.

Optimal class size is 30 to 40 trainees.

Yes.

Again, this depends on the specific needs of the client, but training programmes are arranged in Packages, and can last anything from one day to five days for a complete suite of all three Training Packages.