C. Frank McClure served for 24 years with
the Atlanta Police Department after graduating from Auburn
University. The majority of service with the Atlanta Police
Department was in the Criminal Investigation
Division as a Sergeant with the Homicide Task Force. During
that period of time, he was directly involved and responsible
for supervising investigations of hundreds of homicide
cases. Upon his retirement from the Atlanta Police Department,
he served as a Captain and Commander of the Criminal Investigation
Division for the Douglas County, Georgia Sheriff’s
Office.
Mr. McClure became a member of the Atlanta Police Department’s
Hostage Negotiation Team at it’s inception in 1976
and was appointed Team Commander in 1979. He held that
position until his retirement. During that period of time,
he was directly involved in excess of 300 hostage situations,
barricade gunman, and suicide attempts. Mr. McClure was
awarded the Medal Of Honor, the highest
award given by the Atlanta Police Department, for his actions
in a 22 hour hostage situation where the Executive Secretary
of the Hyatt Regency Hotel was held hostage by a lone gunman.
Mr. McClure has been regarded as one of the foremost authorities
in Crisis/Hostage Negotiations. He has appeared on numerous
television and radio programs as an expert and consultant
in the area of Crisis/Hostage Negotiations. He has trained
hundreds of law enforcement and correctional personnel
from all across the United States and several foreign countries.
In November of 1987, Mr.
McClure was an active member of the negotiating team at
the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary during the Cuban inmate
uprising. This incident involved some 1500 hostage takers
and 121 hostages and lasted for 12 days. The situation
was resolved without the loss of a single hostage. Mr.
McClure
has acted as a consultant to numerous Federal, State, and
Local Law Enforcement and Correctional Agencies as well
as Private Industry. He has acted as a Curriculum Advisor
for the National Institute of Corrections, the State of
Georgia and numerous other agencies. Mr. McClure was called
to appear as an expert witness before the United Sates
Congressional Committee investigation of the circumstances
and events that occurred at Waco, Texas involving David
Koresh.
Mr. McClure is certified by the State of Florida as well
as other states as an instructor and has trained hundreds
of representatives from different law enforcement agencies
on the Federal, State, and Local level as well as several
foreign countries. He is an adjunct faculty member of the
Criminal
Justice Institute at St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg,
Florida and has served as an adjunct faculty member to
other higher educational institutions. Mr. McClure serves
as Director of Crisis Management Resources in Atlanta,
Georgia. As Director, he conducts seminars on crisis/hostage
negotiations as well as other related fields to law enforcement
and correctional personnel.
Mr. McClure acted as consultant to Calibre Press in the
making of their award winning training film “Hostage
Officer Survival”.
He is regarded as one of the foremost experts in the field
of Crisis/Hostage Negotiations and has been described as “the
best in the business” by
numerous peers in the field of Crisis/Hostage Negotiations.
C. Frank McClure served for 24 years with
the Atlanta Police Department after graduating from Auburn
University. The majority of service with the Atlanta Police
Department was in the Criminal Investigation
Division as a Sergeant with the Homicide Task Force. During
that period of time, he was directly involved and responsible
for supervising investigations of hundreds of homicide
