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Police
Books from Southern California
September 16, 2007 (San Dimas,
CA) Police-Writers.com is a website that lists nearly 750 state and local police
officers who have written books. The website added three police authors from
Southern
California.
Jeff Cope retired from the
Huntington Beach Police Department after 29
years as a Lieutenant in charge of the Investigation Bureau. He is a POST Master
Instructor and is Program Manager for the POST Institute of Criminal
Investigation Instructor Development Program and is a consultant and expert
witness specializing in Force Issues, Police Practices and related topics. He
has taught at the
Criminal Justice Training Center at Golden West
College for 22 years and also teaches in the ICI Instructor Update Workshop
Jeff Cope is the author of Weaponless
Control: For Law Enforcement and Security Personnel.
Currently an investigator with
the California Department of Insurance, Fraud Bureau,
Tony Alvarezs
law enforcement career began with the
Los Angeles Police Department and spanned more
than twenty-six years. For twenty-one of his twenty-six years with
LAPD, he was a detective assigned to
Narcotics Division. As a Detective supervisor
assigned to the Major Violator Section of the
Narcotics Group (LAPD),
Detective
Tony Alvarez gained extensive experience in the
field of undercover operations, surveillance and informant control, development
and management.
Tony Alvarez has been a contributing writer for
the California
Narcotic Officer's Association quarterly
magazine. He is an instructor for the California
Narcotic Officer's Association on
Narcotic Officer Survival and has made his
training presentations at the FBI Academy in Quantico (Virginia); and, has also
instructed local, state and federal officers nationwide. In 1995, Detective
Tony Alvarez was awarded the DEA Award of
Valor, the INEOA Medal of Valor and the Al Steward Memorial Award (California
Narcotic Officer of the Year). In 1996, he was awarded the
LAPD Medal of Valor. He is the author of
Undercover Operations Survival in
Narcotics Investigations.
According to the book description
of Undercover Operations Survival in
Narcotics Investigations, undercover
work is one of the most dangerous yet challenging types of police investigation,
requiring extensive
tactical preparedness and close continuing
assessment throughout the operation. If proper planning is lacking, explosive
conflict can occur without warning. The author presents the wide range of
considerations necessary to execute safe undercover teamwork, eliminating
complacency, demonstrating how to seize contraband, obtain evidence and arrest
violators. Conducted properly and safely, investigations provide immediate
gratification to all involved. Furthermore, the techniques and procedures
outline in this book can be easily adapted to any undercover operation.
Ralph Askew was born in 1937 in Cleveland,
Ohio. He spent a total of 10 years in the Ohio National Guard, the California
National Guard and the United States Marine Corps where he developed an interest
in military history. After graduating from UCLA, he joined the
LAPD where he spent most of his patrol time at
the Newton Street Patrol Division as a training officer. He retired from the
Los Angeles Police Department after 21 years.
He is the author of Battleslave.
According to the book description
of Battleslave, Chrisinda Balderack, a battledroid, was
artificially produced in a laboratory solely for the purpose of fighting wars
for the Galaxy. The production of battledroids meant that planets associated
with the Galaxy did not have to provide the Galaxy with their own men to be
killed in a far off war. Very few battleroids ever returned home. Many of the
missions the battledroids were sent on were without support. They were trained
to kill their wounded to prevent them from falling into enemy hand, and
revealing the objective of the mission or slowing down its completion.
Battledroids were trained to have no feelings. After meeting a young girl her
own age, Chrisinda develops emotions and feeling for her own fellow battledroids
and finds that she cannot bring herself to kill her fellow wounded.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 741
police officers (representing 344 police departments) and their 1581
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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