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Las Vegas Cops
July 14, 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
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department:
Kim Thomas,
Gordon Yach and
Harry Fagel.
Kim Thomas is a detective with the
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department,
currently assigned to the forgery detail. His other investigative assignments
included a joint operation with the FBI targeting an organized crime group of
Eastern Europeans who defrauded $34 million from stolen credit cards.
Kim Thomas, a former
U.S. Air Force enlistee has also been a
construction worker, limosine driver and worked in executive protection. In
1992, at the age of 36,
Kim Thomas entered the police academy. A
sixth-degree black belt in Katai-te Ryu karate,
Kim Thomas scored 100 percent on the Metro
physical test even though he was one of the older members of his police academy
class.
Kim Thomas is the author of the novel
Vegas: One Cops Journey. According to the book description, Cam
Madden had a good job and a carefree bachelor lifestyle when he impulsively
tried out for the police academy of the Las Vegas PD. Now that he's mastered the
theories of law enforcement his education in its realities begins with field
training and an ugly suicide call. Learning the lessons of the street leaves
scars on Cam's ego, but it's even rougher on his off-duty relationships with
women. It doesn't matter until he falls for Karrie Mae, a paramedic, whereupon
making it work becomes all important. Their romance grows in a world of
burglars, bums, purse snatchers, drug dealers, and homicidal idiots, no two of
them alike but each to be dealt with according to endless regulations, some of
which cannot work without being severely bent.
Gordon Yach is a 27 year veteran of the
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and
Clark County Sheriffs Office. During his career, he worked patrol, detectives,
vice, narcotics and intelligence. He rose
through the ranks and eventually retired as the Director of the Detention
Services Division. He is the author of Las Vegas... a Cops View Of... the
Glamour, Glitz, Graft, Good & Evil of Sin City.
Harry Fagel has lived in Las Vegas for 30
years. He is a Police Officer with
Las Vegas Metropolitan police Department.
According to Harry, he has also been a bartender, a black jack dealer, a
college student, and a madman. Harry Fagel is the author of Street Talk.
According to the book description, Take a ride with Officer Harry Fagel through
the streets of Las Vegas as he weaves his black and white from glass - littered
alleys to high end mega-resorts pausing along the way to show you a world from
the emotionally charged, highly visual perception of a street cop gone poet or
maybe poet gone street cop.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 640
police officers (representing 281 police
departments) and their 1367 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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