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Police
Officers from California
November 19, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists over 800 state and local
police officers who have written books. The
website added four
police officers from
California.
Captain
Jim Barrett (ret.) is an expert in the world of
police horses. During his 30 year career in
law enforcement he was a trainer, supervisor
and the manager of one of the most successful mounted units in Southern
California. During his tenure with the
Ventura County Sheriff's Department Mounted
Enforcement Unit he has seen the unit grow from three original riders,
increasing to 25 riders who work several hundred details each year.
Jim is one of the founding board
members of the
California Mounted Officers Association (CMOA);
a statewide organization dedicated to the betterment of the mounted officer. Jim
Barrett is the author of two books Steady Your Spooky Horse
and A Manual for the Mounted Police.
According to the book description
of Steady Your Spooky Horse, Here are the stimulus training
methods used by mounted
police officers to teach their horses to face
any situation. When this training is competently done, it works, and that is
proven every day of the week by the thousands of police horses successfully
working the streets throughout the world.
Dr.
A.C. Germann, Professor Emeritus, Department of
Criminal Justice,
California State University, Long Beach was a
Los Angeles Police Department
police officer before pursuing an academic
career. He is responsible for founding the Police Science program at
California State University, Long Beach and is
the author of three books: Introduction to
Law Enforcement &
Criminal Justice; Police Personnel Management;
and, Police Executive development.
Arthur W. Sjoquist and
Thomas G. Hays are retired Captains from the
Los Angeles Police Department as well as
members of the
Los Angeles Police Department Historical
Society Board. They are co-authors of a pictorial look at the
Los Angeles Police Department.
According to the book description
of Images of America:
Los Angeles Police Department, No police force
in history has gained as much fame and notoriety as the
Los Angeles Police Department. The acronym
LAPD is practically synonymous with the idea of
professional
law enforcement. The men in blue who patrol
Hollywood and the sprawling metropolis of L.A. have been investigated by
screenwriters more times than vice versa. With more than 9,300 sworn officers
today, the
LAPD endures seemingly endless controversies
and media circuses. But then theres the other side of L.A.s protective
shieldthe story of the forces evolution alongside the spectacular growth of
its unique melting-pot city. This books rare and often never-before-published
photographs focus on that side: the excitement, danger, tragedy, and comedy of
everyday beat cops and workaday detectiveswith concessions to their limelight
representations, including Jack Webbs Dragnet and Adam-12.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 805
police officers (representing 363 police
departments) and their 1714
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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