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Tennessee, Nebraska and Vermont
August 6, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists nearly 700 state and local police
officers who have written books. The website added police officers from
Tennessee,
Nebraska and
Vermont.
Joe D. Guy is a former
McMinn County Sheriff's Department (Tennessee)
deputy sheriff. Currently,
Joe Guy is a writer who writes articles on
history for Appalachian Life Magazine as well as a weekly newspaper column,
"Beyond the Blue Line." He has also written for the nationally distributed
Community Policing Exchange. Joe
Guy is the author of three books: Beyond the Blue Line: Stories
from the Other Side of Law Enforcement; Beyond the Blue Line: Volume 2:
Sixty-Four New Stories from the Other Side of Law Enforcement; and,
Indian Summer: The Siege and Fall of Fort Loudoun.
According to the book description
of Beyond the Blue Line: Volume 2: Sixty-Four New Stories from the Other
Side of Law Enforcement, A State Trooper fights a belligerent clown.A
former sheriff is assassinated in a small
Tennessee town.Officers respond to a case of a
biting duck.A naked man, a shotgun, and a cameraAnd that old lady the deputy
just ticketed, isnt shethe sheriffs grandma? In Beyond the Blue Line: Volume
2, former police officer
Joe D. Guy once again outdoes himself with a
collection of humorous, heartwarming, and sometimes adventurous true stories
from the other side of law enforcement.
In 1982,
Utah Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety
Robert C. Wadman was appointed
Chief of Police for
Omaha Police Department (Nebraska).
He was the first chief of the
Omaha Police Department that was appointed from
outside the ranks.
Robert Wadman served as chief until 1986.
Since 1997, Dr.
Robert C. Wadman is a Professor at Weber State
University (Ogden,
Utah). He teaches
criminal justice related courses such as:
Introduction to
Criminal Justice; Community Policing; Research
Methods in
Criminal Justice;
Criminal Justice Management; Drugs and Crime;
and, Victimology. Dr.
Robert C. Wadman is the author of Law
enforcement supervision: A case study approach; and the co-author of
Community Policing and Crime Prevention in America and England and To Protect
and to Serve: A History of Police in America.
According to the book description of To Protect and
to Serve: A History of Police in America, This readable book provides a
comprehensive and detailed survey of the development of police organization,
theory, and practice; and its role in American history. It examines how police
have tried to maintain law and order in a democratic society, noting successes,
failures, and continuing problems since the colonial period.
Rollie Powell is a retired detective from the
Rutland City Police Department (Vermont).
He is the author of Killjoy-A Cop's Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse.
According to the book description, it is the story of
Rollie Powell's ten-year personal war against
child sexual abuse, against the indifference and social denial that allows this
crime to exist and grow at an alarming rate. As a detective with Rutland's
Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Vermont he offers a full view of the issues
from someone who has been on the frontlines - of the perpetrators, the victims,
their families, the overloaded justice system and the public media reactions.
Rollie Powells book offers to appendices:
Prevention Guide and Resource Guide. In the Prevention Guide, Powell offers
techniques and methods for prevention through educating children, recognizing
signs of abuse in children, providing love and support and getting professional
help. The Resource Guide is a list of associations, organizations, state
agencies and web sites, offering support and information.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 695
police officers (representing 317 police
departments) and their 1491 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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