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Police from Nevada
July 15, 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 officer from departments within the
state of
Nevada:
David E. Hatch;
Lake Headley; and,
Jeff Kaye.
Detective
David E. Hatch spent more than 27 years with
the
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
David Hatch joined the
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in
1969 after discharge from the
U.S. Marine Corps. In 1980, as a detective, he
joined the homicide section. During his time with homicide, he investigated
over 400 homicides and 125 officer-involved shootings.
After retirement in 1997,
David Hatch has concentrated on
law enforcement related writing and teaching.
He is the author of Officer-Involved Shootings and Use of Force: Practical
Investigative Techniques, Second Edition (Practical Aspects of Criminal and
Forensic Investigations).
David Hatchs book, now in its second edition,
continues to provide sound and sober models, protocols, and procedures to
handle the highly charged fall-out from officer involved shootings. Written by
cops for cops, it is designed to address the needs of the agency, the rights of
the employee, and the concerns of the public, and give
law enforcement the policies and tools to
properly investigate and document this high profile area.
In 1957,
Lake Headley joined the Clark County Sheriffs
Department (Nevada). After five years
Lake Headley resigned because, as he puts it,
the Department more closely resembled a vigilante committee than a
law enforcement agency.
Lake Headley launched his own Private
Investigations firm and became involved in many interesting, if not
extraordinary cases.
Lake Headley is the author of Vegas P.I.
And, the co-author of the true crime books: Contract Killer; The
Court-Martial of Clayton Lonetree; and, Loud and Clear.
According to
Lake Headleys publisher, Vegas P.I
is filled with major crime cases and startling revelations, it chronicles
his thirty-five perilous and action-packed years as a first-rank detective
defending the disenfranchised and battling crime on the streets of Las Vegas and
beyond. He takes us back to a period of gambling history when the Mob ruled the
strip and he busted some of the most ingenious scams cheaters ever devised.
Headley gives never-revealed details of the famous "Friars Club Cheating Case"
in which celebrities such as Phil Silvers, Debbie Reynolds, Tony Martin, and
Groucho Marx lost more than a million dollars in a rigged gin rummy game at the
exclusive Friars Club in Beverly Hills. Headley chronicles his wild adventures
with the legendary bounty hunter "Papa" Ralph Thorson.
Jeff Kaye is a sergeant with the
Reno Police Department (Nevada).
He has spent the majority of his career working various undercover assignments.
He is considered an expert in undercover operations, street level drug
enforcement and undercover operative stress syndromes.
Jeff Kaye is the author of the novel Two
Faces Have I
According to
Jeff Kayes book description, Jack Stoner is
having a bad day. A psycho thief wants to kill him for being a snitch, a serial
killer has set him up as a murder suspect, and he's about to cross paths with an
organized crime boss, which will cause a sexy female F.B.I. Agent to enter his
life and add to his troubles. On top of all this, he's having problems
remembering he is really a cop named Jake Slater, who has been left undercover
far too long. Follow him through Nevada's glitter towns on an emotional and
action-packed tour of the dirty little secret Law Enforcement calls undercover
work.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 643
police officers (representing 282 police
departments) and their 1373 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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