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Three LAPD
Cops
September 25, 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
LAPD police officers.
Ronald M. McCarthy served as a
Los Angeles police officer for over 24
years. He was assigned to the
tactical unit, Metro Division, for 20 years
and retired from
Special Weapons and Tactics as the senior
supervisor and assistant commander.
Ronald McCarthy was the chief of
Tactical Operations for the Department of
Energy from 1984 through 1986. He was the director of the Deadly Force Training
Grants for the Department of Justice and the
International Association of Chiefs of Police
from 1986 through 1988.
Since 1992,
Ronald McCarthy has been the owner of R.M.
McCarthy & Associates, a training, consulting, and marketing resource for law
enforcement. He has trained
police officers from Europe, South America,
the Middle East, and more than 30,000
police officers and military here in the
United States.
Ronald McCarthy is the co-author of
The Management of Police Specialized
Tactical Units. According to the
book description, Managerial responsibility of a
SWAT team requires continuous research in
the material area of long-term criminal trends as well as keeping abreast of new
developments in relevant tactics, technology, and techniques of
law enforcement and the legal issues
covering their use. The Management of Police Specialized
Tactical Units explains the steps for
developing and maintaining a realistic, effective response to increasing levels
of violent crime. The book makes extensive use of actual field examples such as
the North Hollywood Bank of America Shootout, the Mogadishu Airport Incident,
the Springle Street Incident, and the confrontation between police and the
Symbionese Liberation Army.
E. W. Ted Oglesby was a
Los Angeles Police Department police
officer for 31 years. He is the author of Angel Dust: What everyone
should know about PCP and the co-author of Street Narcotic
Enforcement.
Sergeant
Thomas E. Page, LAPD (ret.) is the former
Officer-in-Charge of the
Los Angeles Police Department's Drug
Recognition Expert (DRE) Unit. Thomas Page is a 22-year veteran of
law enforcement, having served in both the
Los Angeles Police Department and
Detroit Police Departments. During his
career with the
Los Angeles Police Department, Sergeant
Thomas Page was the coordinator for the
1985 Los Angeles Field Validation Test (173 case study) of the DRE Procedure.
This study validated the effectiveness and reliability of a standardized and
systematic approach to drug influence recognition. These procedures have been
adopted nationwide by professionals in government,
law enforcement, military, private industry
and health care.
Thomas Page has taught drug influence
recognition and the behavioral indicators of drug use to a wide range of
audiences. These audiences include the American Bar Association, Northwestern
University Traffic Institute, the California Department of Mental Health, the
Swedish National Police Federation in Stockholm, the Russian Procuracy Training
Academy in Moscow, the Victoria Police in Melbourne, Australia, the Department
of the Army, nurses, physicians, psychiatrists, toxicologists, and private
industry. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial Psychology, and
his Master of Arts degree in Urban Affairs from the University of Detroit.
Thomas Page is the co-author of Drug
Information Handbook for the Criminal Justice Professional and the
co-editor of Medical-Legal Aspects of Abused Substances: Old And New -
Licit And Illicit.
According to Drug
Information Handbook for the Criminal Justice Professional, it is a
Compilation of over 570 drugs, agents, and substances for the criminal justice
professional.
According to Medical-Legal
Aspects of Abused Substances: Old And New - Licit And Illicit, If you
regularly handle cases involving substance abuse or need information on newly
compounded substances, as well as re-discovered drugs of abuse such as Ecstasy,
Meth, PCP, Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate, otherwise know as the "Date Rape Drug", and
Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids popular with todays athletes, this is your
reference of choice.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 746
police officers (representing 346 police departments) and their 1587
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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