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Tactics, Law
and Investigations
October 28, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists nearly 800 state and local police
officers who have written books. The website added three
police officers who have written about
tactics, the law and investigations.
A former lieutenant with the
Santa Ana Police Department (California)
and professor emeritus from Santa Ana College,
Thomas F. Adams is the author of five
books: Introduction to the Administration of Criminal Justice; Training
Officers' Handbook; Harden the Target : A Guide to Defense of Life, Limb, and
Loved Ones; Law Enforcement - An Introduction To The Police Role In The
Community; and Police Field Operations. He is the co-author of a sixth:
Crime Scene Investigation.
According to the book
description, Police Field Operations is written from the
perspective of a working
police officer, presenting real-life
scenarios an officer is likely to encounter while on-duty. With its focus on
community policing, it describes how and why certain procedures are used, and
gives informative techniques from leading police academies from around the
country. It provides readers with the widest range of up-to-date information:
Use-of-force issues; guidelines for shaping and enforcing policy;
officer survival and stress Reduction. Police
Field Operations helps readers develop the necessary skills of
observations, perceptions, interviewing techniques, and crowd and riot control.
Great resource material for those involved in police patrol procedures and
police and field operations.
In 1968
Devallis Rutledge joined the
Santa Ana Police Department where he served
for two years. In 1975, he completed law school and in 1976 joined the Orange
County District Attorneys Office as a prosecutor. Since 2000,
Devallis Rutledge has worked as private
counsel in a law firm and as Special Counsel to the Los Angeles County District
Attorneys Office.
Devallis Rutledge is the author of eleven
books: Criminal Investigations and Evidence; The New Police Report Manual;
Courtroom Survival, The Officer's Guide to Better Testimony; The Search and
Seizure Handbook; The Officer Survival Manual; Criminal Interrogation, Law and
Tactics; California Criminal Procedure; California Criminal Law Concepts; The
Search and Seizure Field Guide California Peace Officers Field Source guide;
and, PC 832 Concepts.
According to the book description
of The New Police Report Manual, this manual is the undisputed
authority on plain-talk report writing techniques. Interesting and easy-to-read,
it provides hundreds of examples that show easier and better ways to write
without any spelling or grammar lessons. It is valuable as a supplemental reader
for investigations or police communications courses.
By 1960,
Rod Sanford was studying the martial arts.
Through his years of study he became a preeminent practitioner and Sensei of
traditional martial arts. In 1968,
Rod Sanford joined the
Santa Cruz Sheriffs Office. He spent most
of his 25 year career with the
Santa Cruz Sheriffs Office as a patrol
sergeant. However, he was a member of several specialized units such as the
search and rescue team, dive team, mounted unit and the
SWAT team. In 1969, he began to teach
defensive
tactics to his fellow
police officers. For the next twenty-five
years,
Rod Sanford would teach firearms and
officer safety tactics as well as defensive tactics.
In 1983, Rod Sanford left the
Santa Cruz Sheriffs Office and founded the Pacific Institute of Defensive
Tactics in order to teach
law enforcement tactics full-time.
Rod Sanford is the author of Law
Enforcement: Reasonable Force Options; Basic Arrest Tactics & Self-Defense for
Law Enforcement; and, Arrest Control Techniques & Baton Tactic.
According to the book description
of Law Enforcement: Reasonable Force Options, This book is for
all
law enforcement officers, students and
instructors. No matter what your background or system you will find,
tactics and techniques that will help you
enjoy a successful career and keep you going home safely at the end of each
shift. Rod Sanford has drawn from over 30 years of
law enforcement and training experience to
bring you the essence of use of force, defensive tactics and officer training in
a complete text with over 1,600 step-by-step photographs.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 789
police officers (representing 353 police departments) and their 1694
law enforcement 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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