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Corporal Stephen Z. Smith, Montgomery Police Department (ret.) began his law enforcement career in 1981.  He retired 2001from the Montgomery Police Department (Alabama) and went to work as a deputy sheriff for Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. Corporal Stephen Z. Smith is the author of It’s More than Shootouts and Car Chases,” Memoirs of a Montgomery Police Officer and Seeking Revenge.

According to the book description of Seeking Revenge, "Corporal John Steele is an eleven-year veteran of the Montgomery Police Department. While the city is plagued with a series of convenience store robberies, he is assigned a new partner, Officer Marie Madison, a rookie fresh out of the police academy. At each robbery, the suspect assaults the clerk before leaving a note addressed to Corporal Steele. With each robbery becoming more violent, detectives try and figure out how the suspect knows which robbery John will be responding to next. Each note is causing flashbacks of the night when as a rookie officer he and his partner were shot. As detectives draw closer to solving the crimes, the suspect lures John and Marie into a deadly game of cat and mouse."

According to the book description of It's More Than Shootouts and Car Chases: Memoirs of a Montgomery Police Officer, “it you inside the life of a Montgomery Police Officer in the capital city of Alabama. Corporal Smith began his career as a nineteen year old police cadet working in an administrative capacity, until attending the police academy in 1983. As a trainee, Smith started the police academy with twenty fellow recruits and sixteen grueling weeks later, graduating with only six. You experience from the beginning what it takes to become a Montgomery police officer. This detailed, factual account provides the reader with an inside look from being shot at as a rookie officer while investigating a car burglary, to being involved in two police shootings and working the deaths of two fellow officers as an evidence technician. Throughout his twenty year career, Corporal Steve Smith shares his experiences that will have you laughing one moment and then a call of "shots fired" will show you the true dangers of being a police officer. As Corporal Steve Smith shares his true life experiences he also shares his faith in the Lord as he serves and protects the citizens of Montgomery.”

 

 

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