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Three Missouri Law Enforcement Officials
July 11, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who
have written books. The website added two
Missouri police officers and one state trooper:
Robert B. Heinen,
Del Gibson and
Jeffery Nance.
Robert B. Heinen was a police officer for the
Kansas City Police Department (Missouri) from
1946 to 1974. He retired at the rank of Captain. At the beginning of World War
II a then 17 year old
Robert Heinen enlisted the
United States Navy. He served four years in
both the Atlantic and Pacific. Six months after the war he joined the
Kansas City Police Department. He is published
his autobiography The Battle Behind the Badge in 1997.
According to one reader, The
Battle Behind the Badge takes you on the streets of Kansas City with
Captain Heinen as your partner. BEWARE! On your shift you'll not only encounter
dangerous street thugs, but high-powered organized crime figures. When you
return to the station house to file your reports, be prepared to battle corrupt
police officials and egocentric city hall politicians. "The Battle Behind the
Badge" is an excellent hardball account of Kansas City during a time when it was
difficult to tell who the bad guy was. Captain Heinen is an honest cop who pays
for his integrity by being yo-yoed up and down the ranks. He is Kansas City's "Serpico."
This is a very good read that took a lot of guts to write.
Del Gibson had a circus act at age fifteen,
hitchhiked through forty of the lower 48 states at sixteen, and was a homicide
detective with the
Kansas City Police Department (Missouri). A
graduate of Central
Missouri State University with an M.S. degree
in Criminology, he trained National Police in the Republic of Marshall Islands
and was a counter-intelligence investigator for the U.S. Department of Defense
in the South Pacific. He has also taught criminology in several colleges and
universities.
Del Gibson is the author of the thriller
False Sanctuary. According to the book description, Newly divorced,
Kelly Garrison moves to Newton, Colorado, to start a new life. A former
policeman, Kelly is hired by the Newton police department. Kelly is befriended
by long- time resident, Joel Carson, who is a retired miner and also mayor of
Newton. Then Kelly falls in love with Joels granddaughter just before stumbling
upon a huge drug money laundering operation conducted through the bank where
Joel is the major stockholder. The drug cartel attempts to kill Kelly for
investigating the laundering operation. Is Joel, Kellys new friend, part of the
operation? Who in Newton can Kelly trust?
Jeffery Nance is a certified fraud examiner,
former undercover narcotics agent trooper with the
Missouri State Highway Patrol. He is the
author of Conquering Deception. According to the book
description, Conquering Deception delivers the tools to recognize
the hidden meanings of what others say using principles originated by America's
savviest police investigators. Conquering Deception adapts these
principles for use in any setting--business or personal--to be used in an
informal and non-confrontational style. A handbook for the savvy
conversationalist that is practical, effective, and one-of-a-kind.
One reader of Conquering
Deception said, This book is quite effective (maybe too effective) at
translating police interrogation tactics in a way that you can use in everyday
conversations, and like the literature says, you don't have to be overly
inquisitive or accusatory to make them work. I say 'maybe too effective' because
I'm not sure that the average person needs to be privy to this information. Like
the author, I'm a former police officer. I liked the book, and as above, it's
highly effective--but this is material that the average officer doesn't even
know, much less the average citizen. It is powerful stuff--if these principles
of conversation have been used to get suspects to confess to murdering another
person, it's easy to see that they would be powerful in everyday conversation.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 631
police officers (representing 277 police
departments) and their 1344 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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