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Captain Alan Burton's first book was published
while he was a student at the FBI National Academy.. He served 25 years in the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office
(California). Alan Burton retired as a captain. According to one biography he has published 18 books.
However, we have located nine books, seven of which are academic works centered on police department communications.
As an example, Alan Burton wrote Police Communications Guide: For Managers in 1984.
Alan Burton has published as least two novels Terrorist
and Duty!: A Cop’s Story.
According to the book description of Duty!
A Cop's Story, “duty drives Ben Sterling up the bumpy road from jail deputy to elected Sheriff. It's
the story of good, bad, honorable and dishonorable cops. It's an inside story, written by one who's been there.”
One reader of Duty! A Cop’s Story
said, it “follows the career of a fictional officer from his first day to running for election as County Sheriff. According
to one reviewer, “I have been a law enforcement professional for nearly 10 years and this novel is full of stories that
could have only been written by a cop. The story follows a young deputy through out his career and into the stresses of the
job. Many pages in this book had me laughing (out loud) and shaking my head when I recalled similar incidents.”
According to the book description of
Terrorist, “What can a man do to avenge his father's
death? Jerry Baxter's naïve choice is to join the Apostles for Peace - a radical anti-nuclear group with anarchist
motives. Jerry Baxter is easily seduced by an attractive revolutionary who introduces him to terrorism,
and to her sister. "Terrorist" takes you inside an American terrorist cell, where plans are hatched
for an assault on the military's highly-guarded classified shipments. Suspense, spies, FBI and ATF
agents, cops, shootouts, sex and murder, violence from the sky, and a trip into the navy's nuclear storage arsenal - all
go to make a page-turner of "Terrorist.”
About
the Contra County Sheriff's Office:
The
720 sworn personnel and 332 civilian personnel of the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office are organized into four bureaus:
Administrative Services Bureau; Custody Services Bureau; Field Operations Bureau; and, the Support Services Bureau.
The
Custody Services Bureau operates three detention facilities within the Detention Division, which are located in Marsh Creek,
Martinez and Richmond. The three facilities average an inmate population in excess of 1,500. Custody Alternative and inmate
transportation are also responsibilities of the Detention Division. Deputy Sheriffs provide security for the Superior Courts
as well as Commissioners. The Marshal’s Office, with its accompanying duties pertaining to the Courts, was merged with
the Office of the Sheriff in 1988, and now constitutes the Court Security Division within Custody Services Bureau.
The
Field Operations Bureau consists of three service divisions: Patrol, Investigation and Coroner's. The Patrol Division provides
patrol services for the unincorporated area of the County; the five contract cities of Danville, Lafayette, Oakley, Orinda
and San Ramon; and the special districts in Alamo, Blackhawk, Crockett, Diablo and Roundhill; as well as contracted services
with the Contra Costa County Housing Authority, A.C. Transit, the Contra Costa Water District and Contra Costa Regional Medical
Center.
The
Investigations Division is responsible for follow-up investigation of all reported felony offenses and certain misdemeanor
crimes that occur in unincorporated areas. The Investigations Division investigates roughly 9,400 felony and misdemeanor crimes
annually, to include homicides, robberies, burglaries, as well as all sex crimes and narcotics violations. Detectives are
assigned to Narcotic Enforcement Teams (NETS), which are staffed by local law enforcement agencies and supervised by the Department
of Justice (DOJ) and Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE) Agents. Detectives also provide service to contract cities and special
districts.
The
branch of Administrative Services is one of the four Bureaus in the Office of the Sheriff. Five distinct units described below
provide the majority of services performed by this Bureau: Inspections and Control, Personnel and Finance, Planning and Research,
Professional Standards and Employee Development. The Office of the Sheriff has its own Crime Laboratory, which provides service
to all law enforcement agencies in the County and is known for its excellence.
The
Communications Center dispatches for all Sheriff’s patrol units and contracted services, as well as all emergency medical
and Animal Control services countywide. Annually, 800,000 phone calls are received in the Dispatch Center. The communications
center was recently upgraded and remodeled.
Source:
cocosheriff.org
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