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Police
Books from Alaska to California
August 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 one police officer from
Alaska and two from
California.
According to the Southern Oregon
University Retirees Association Newsletter (Spring 2007 edition) Dr.
Victor H. Sims died on April 27, 2007.
Victor Sims joined the Universitys Department of Criminology in 1994 and
retired in 2006. He had extensive experience in service and
leadership positions, serving as a Company
Commander in the
U. S. Army Military Police Corps, a police
officer in Berkeley, Phoenix, and Anchorage. In Nome, Alaska he served as
chief of police of the
Nome Police Department.
He received his PhD from the
University of Southern Mississippi in 1982 and taught
at Stephen F. Austin State
University, at the University of Southern Mississippi, and Lamar State
University before going to SOU as Associate Professor of Criminology. Vics
scholarship included research on rural and small town policing. He helped the
department connect with regional
law enforcement agencies and brought a
chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma (the
Criminal Justice Honor Society) to SOU. He
received an Elmo award for his
leadership in motivating students to come
to the University. During his life he was also a commercial pilot, a marathon
runner and triathlete. Victor Sims was also the author of Small Town and
Rural Police.
Prior to his
law enforcement career,
James T. Born was a member of the
United States Navy. In 1967, James Born
was deployed to Vietnam as a Boatswains Mate Third Class. He received a Bronze
Star while serving as Assistant Boat Captain with Mobile Support Team II, on a
Heavy SEAL Support Craft (HSSC), operating in the MeKong Delta.
James T. Born graduated from the
Los Angeles Police Department academy in
1969. During his ten year career in
law enforcement he served as a Los Angeles
Police Officer and a Deputy Sheriff. The highest rank he attained in
law enforcement was as a Sheriffs Captain,
Chief of the Detective Bureau. In 1978,
James Born was licensed as a private
investigator in California. And, in 1989, he was licensed as a private
investigator in Nevada.
James Born is a District Court Certified
Forensic and Fingerprint Expert and has taught Crime Scene Technology and
Investigation to
law enforcement officers in eleven states.
Jim born is a recipient of the National Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution Law
Enforcement Commendation Medal the highest civilian law enforcement
medal in the United States. He is a graduate of Los Angeles Pierce College and
has further attended fours years of University instruction in his field of
Criminal Justice Administration.
James Born has graduated from 82
law enforcement training schools. He is
also the author of Coping with Marital Infidelity: How to Catch your
Spouse Cheating.
According to the description of
Coping with Marital Infidelity, If you are a victim or know
someone who is a victim of marital infidelity (cheating mates), this unique "How
to" book will grab held of your life in a way you could never dream of and give
you the tools needed that will help you to cope with this problem. The author
has investigated thousands of such cases and has consulted with many thousands
of other victims having the same problem, who couldn't afford to hire an
investigator and needed advice.
Dr.
John P. Kenney began his career in
criminal justice and
law enforcement career as a patrol officer
for the
Berkeley Police Department. A recognized
leader in the improvement of policing, Dr.
John Kenney has been a director at the
California Department of Justice; the president of the Los Angeles Police
Commission; a management consultant (which included the Denver City Council
retaining him in 1957 when a Denver Police Department scandal received national
publicity for numerous police officers taking contracts to burglarize
businesses); and, he worked extensively with the Agency for International
Development identifying police consultants to work overseas, and personally
conducted an international conference on democratic policing in Thailand.
Dr.
John Kenney was a founder of the
International Association of Police Professors which became the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences and was a
President of the American Society of Criminology. His work as a
criminal justice educator included the
graduate schools for police administration at the University of Southern
California and California State University at Long Beach. He is the author of
Police Operations: Policies and Procedures: Four Hundred Field Situations
with Solutions; Principles of Investigation and Study Guide to Accompany
Principles of Investigation (2 Books); The Police Executive Handbook; and,
Police Work with Juveniles and the Administration of Juvenile Justice.
According to the book description
of Principles of Investigation, Covering topics from a conceptual
viewpoint, this text brings the ethical and legal obligations of investigation
into perspective. It uses tabulated lists and checklists along with Features
(examples) to cover the techniques of investigation.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 724
police officers (representing 333 police departments) and their 1547
police 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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