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Policing Paradise and other Non Sequiturs
March 12, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a
website dedicated to listing state and local
police officers who have authored books added
four police officers whose work covers policing history to fiction based in
policing.
Edward F. Connolly, former superintendent of
the
Boston Police Department. His biography,
Cops Cop, includes stories he never even told his wife.
Edward Anthony Gibbons was a
Boston Police Department police officer for ten
years. He has written two crime novels, Crime, Passion & Conscience
and Betrayal and Revenge: Mysterium iniquitotis. According to one
reviewer, Gibbons last novel, Crime, Passion, and Conscience
revealed a corrupt Boston Homicide cop and tainted politicians. With
Betrayal and Revenge, Gibbons continues with his first hand knowledge to
thrill the reader.
Peter Mars, a thirty year veteran of law
enforcement, has an undergraduate degree in
criminal justice and police science; masters
degree in public administration; and, doctorate in sociology. He began his law
enforcement career with the Yarmouth Police Department (Massachusetts). After
12 years with Yarmouth, he moved to Maine where he became the Chief of
Administrative Services for the
Kennebec County Sheriffs Office (Maine). He
has authored six books: The Tunnel, A Taste for Money,
The Key, The Best Suit in Town, The Chaplain
and Alternative Measures.
According to the book description for Alternative
Measures, it opens the door into a world unknown to most civilians, a
secret underworld with deep-rooted connections in Maine, where the seemingly
most innocuous residents are responsible for some of the most potent activities
for guaranteeing the security of this country. Written as a fictional account to
protect his sources, you will wonder where the truth ends and the story begins.
His fourth book, The Best Suit in Town, is
the history of the
police officers who worked for the Mansfield
Police Department (Ohio) and was written with co-author Chief
John Butler,
Sanibel Island Police Department (ret.). As
their book, tells the story of a great generation of cops who policed a
mid-sized, Midwestern industrial city after World War II through the time of the
conflict in Vietnam. It was a time of change and turmoil that included the civil
rights movement and society's general rebellion against authority.
John Butler was the chief of police for the
Mansfield Police Department (Ohio). After retiring from Mansfield, he started
the
Sanibel Island Police Department (Florida).
Upon retiring from the
Sanibel Island Police Department John Butler
wrote a book about his experiences starting that department called
Policing Paradise.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 397
police officers (representing 168
police departments) and their 858 books in six
categories, there are also listings of United States federal law enforcement
employees turned authors, international
police officers who have written books and
civilian police personnel who have written books.
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