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California and Oregon
July 26, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who
have written books. The website added police officer authors from
California and
Oregon:
Kent Anderson;
Bernard K. Smith; and,
Robert Dent.
At the age of 19
Kent Anderson joined the Merchant Marines and
traveled the world for two years. By his 23 birthday, he was a Special Forces
sergeant in Vietnam, where he was awarded two bronze stars. In 1973, he joined
the
Portland Police Bureau, and worked as a street
cop for 4 years before taking a leave of absence to earn an MFA in Fiction
Writing from the University of Montana in Missoula. At the age of 37, he
returned to police work and joined the
Oakland Police Department (California).
After two years on the
Oakland Police Department he resigned because
he was, sick of making unnecessary arrests to fill out the monthly quotas.
According to
Kent Anderson, that winter, broke and jobless,
out of sheer terror he wrote the first complete draft of Sympathy for the
Devil. Shortly thereafter, he obtained a teaching job in El Paso at the
University of Texas and rewrote the book several times during his four-year stay
on the border. He is also the author of Night Dogs and
Liquor, Guns and Ammo: The Collected Short Fiction and Non-Fiction of Kent
Anderson.
According to one reader/reviewer
of Night Dogs, it is a tough, gritty view of life on the streets
and the way police officers deal with their constant exposure to this madness.
It is very realistic and presents a variety of characters, some of which you
might encounter in any big city.
Bernard K. Smith as a police officer for the
Portland Police Bureau (Oregon)
for eleven years. He then continued with his career in
criminal justice as a trial attorney. He is
the author of seven fiction and or/science fiction books: Chriss Cross;
Hair Lock; Red Hats; Shark; Bear; Argo; and, Islands in the Sky.
According to the book description of his most recent book, Islands in the Sky,
In a world with a great gulf between the haves and have-nots, one strong willed
and resourceful man fights for his future. Cord is a man that is trying to
survive and thrive. He finds a woman to love and protect to share in a battle to
find a better place in a frightening world.
Robert Dent is a 29 year
law enforcement veteran and a recently retired
Oregon State Police Senior Trooper. He has
served in the Criminal, Narcotic and Patrol divisions of the Oregon State Police
and is the Founder and President of the Constable Group, Inc. which is a
privately held corporation that conducts
training seminars and publishes language and
communication
training manuals, videos and educational
materials for public safety and educational facilities, as well as private
companies and corporations involved with executive protection, counter-terrorism
and industrial security. He is also the author of: The Complete Spanish
Field Reference Manual for Public Safety Professionals; The Multi-Lingual Field
Manual for Public Safety Professionals; and, Silent Universal Signals for Public
Safety and Education Professionals. He is also the co-author of 18
Silent Universal Signals for School Safety.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 674
police officers (representing 302 police
departments) and their 1447 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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