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Bob Faulkner grew up in
blue collar Middle America. The soot covered snow of the factory town mid-western winters and the noxious industrial odor
of the summer’s oppressively humid city streets sent Bob’s mind veering from reality and into books by Hambleton
and London and the poems of Robert Service. He dreamed of cascading streams, clear mountain meadows and the promise of wilderness
adventures. A world detour, courtesy of
the United States Marine Corps, gave Bob the impetus to quit his roots. He joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where
he relished the excitement of life in the fast lane on the mean streets.
Bob Faulkner now lives
in Montana where he enjoys fishing, skeet shooting and the quiet time to pursue his passion with the pen. He is the author
of The Buffalo Rock. According to the book description of The Buffalo Rock, “In the summer of 1923 Grant
Collins leaves his languishing career as a journalist and travels to Montana to interview Tornado Tom, the last living rider
of the Pony Express. Tom invites Grant to stay at his Buffalo Rock Ranch, a sprawling enterprise which Tom has hewn from the
Montana wilderness. As the summer unfolds, Tom tells Grant of his seventy year odyssey from a Spartan childhood among the
Blackfeet Indians to his life of baronial comfort. At The Buffalo Rock, Grant experiences the mise-en-scene of Tom's life,
as he reluctantly learns to ride, shoot and fight. It is love at first sight when Grant meets Dixie, Tom's great-niece
who is also visiting from Saint Louis. Among stolen moments of romance, Grant chronicles the life and times of the erstwhile
frontiersman. When Buck Horton, a ranch hand with a penchant for violence, disputes Grant's claim to the heart of Dixie,
the young lovers soon find themselves galloping headlong on the hooves of hell into the jaws of a deadly triangle.”
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About the
Los Angeles Police Department
In February 1955, the Los Angeles
Police Department, through the pages
of the internally produced BEAT
magazine, conducted a contest for a
motto for the police academy. The
conditions of the contest stated that:
“The motto should be one that in a few
words would express some or all the
ideals to which the Los Angeles police
service is dedicated. It is possible
that the winning motto might someday
be adopted as the official motto of
the Department.” The winning entry was
the motto, “To Protect and to Serve”
submitted by Officer Joseph S. Dorobek.
“To Protect and
to Serve” became the official motto of
the Police Academy, and it was kept
constantly before the officers in
training as the aim and purpose of
their profession. With the passing of
time, the motto received wider
exposure and acceptance throughout the
department. On November 4, 1963, the
Los Angeles City Council passed the
necessary ordinance and the credo has
now been placed alongside the City
Seal on the Departments patrol cars.
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