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Faith, Poetry and the Matchbook Story
July 7, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who
have written books. The website added three authors:
Donald Dinninger,
Tom Guthery and
Eli Miletich.
Sergeant
Donald Dinninger has served on the
Saginaw Police Department for eighteen years.
The department has awarded him two meritorious awards and two distinguished
service awards. He was honored as policeman of the year in 1985. Don has
acquired a masters degree from the University of Detroit and has earned a
ministerial certificate from the Berean School of the Bible in Springfield,
Missouri. Over the years, Don has worked as patrolman, detective,
training sergeant, and director of public
affairs as well as a missionary to Guatemala.
Donald Dinninger is the author of Shield
of Faith.
Donald Dinninger said of his book, Reviewing
the past sixteen years on the police force, I noticed a definite marked
difference in my policing techniques, before and after I asked the Lord into my
life. The tragedies I was witnessing and the subsequent trauma in my life were
leading me down a road to becoming cynical, caustic and calloused.
I would like to describe some of the significant
events that paved the way to my realizing I needed Christ in my life. I would
note that these will only begin to scratch the surface of my profession. Ive
been through many more trying experiences, but now Im not alone. Ive got a
Protector who wont leave me nor forsake me. He comforts me when I need
comforting and strengthens me when I need strengthening.
Tom Guthery is a former police officer for the
Bloomington Police Department (Minnesota).
Tom Guthery is the author of
Walk Awhile With Me: Poems and Thoughts.
Eli J. Miletich, a veteran of thirty three
years service with the
Duluth Police Department (Minnesota). He
worked in every division gaining a broad perspective of police work, and human
nature with it's failures as well as successes. Appointed
Police Chief in 1982, he adapted the nation's
first ever policy of Mandated Arrest for Domestic Abuse for which he was
commended by the President of the United States. He was appointed to the
Minnesota Police Officers Standards and
Training Board by Governor Rudy Perpich serving
eight years and was its chairman. He also was a Vice President of the Minnesota
Chiefs of Police Association.
After retirement,
Eli Miletich was recruited by a friend, a
retired FBI agent, to serve in Bosnia-Herzegovina with the United Nations
International Police Task Force to train and monitor police in that war torn
nation. He served one year in a sometimes-hectic environment, the native land of
his parents.
Eli Miletich is the author of The
Matchbook and Other Cop Stories.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 620
police officers (representing 270 police
departments) and their 1324 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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