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Minnesota Police Officers
July 8, 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 police officers from the State of
Minnesota: Neil
Haugerud;
Al Palmquist; and,
James Frie.
Neil Haugerud began his career in public office
when he was Elected sheriff of
Fillmore County in 1958. In 1968, he was
elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives, where he served until 1977 He
was appointed chairman of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission by
President Carter in 1977. He began publishing the column "Jailhouse Stories" in
the Fillmore County Journal.
Neil Haugerud is the author of Jailhouse
Stories: Memories of a Small-Town Sheriff and Do-it-yourself guide
to Minnesota probate.
According to the book description
of
Neil Haugeruds Jailhouse Stories,
In the 1950s and 1960s, Neil Haugerud served as sheriff of
Fillmore County in southeastern Minnesota. In
Jailhouse Stories, Haugerud describes what it was like to live next to a prison,
where jailbirds and jailbreaks were part of family life. We meet colorful people
on both sides of the law, whose problems range from the ordinary to the offbeat
to the downright bizarre. In the end, Haugerud emerges with his faith in human
nature intact.
Al Palmquist was a
police officer for the
Minneapolis Police Department. He is the
author and/or co-author of eight books: Minnesota Connection; The
Real Centurions; What's in a Name?; The love factor;
Miracle at city hall; 99 ways to protect your children: From molesters, pimps &
pornographers; Whatever Became of the Drug Scene?; and, Con games kids use to
trick their parents concerning drug use
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James Frie is a
police officer for the
Northfield Police Department. His is the
author of The Scarce Man. According to the book description of
The Scarce Man, it centers on Agent Mike Rawlings of the
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. He
is
Minnesota's top murder detective and is nearing
retirement when he's called in to handle the most baffling and dangerous case of
his career. Someone with a violent M.O. is killing certain people in the
Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Rawlings deduces that the murders are politically
motivated, but what he doesn't know is that the killer, who in the days
following 9/11, has become obsessed with the idea that he alone can begin a
chain of events that will launch the social revolution he believes will save the
country.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 623
police officers (representing 272 police
departments) and their 1335 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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