First Constable’s Office Added

Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books listed the first police officer from an American Constable’s Office. The Harris County Constables Office (Texas) becomes the 116th state or local police agency to have a police author listed. Additionally, two other police writers were added to the growing list of police officers turned writers.

Ron Hickman began his law enforcement career with the Houston Police Department in June of 1971. He served in a variety of assignments and obtained a broad range of law enforcement experience. He joined the Harris County Constable's Office in 1983. In 2001, Ron Hickman was elected chief constable. He holds a Master Peace Officer certification and is a 1995 graduate of and instructor for the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute. In his fictional novel, “To Dance with Death,” A female serial killer is on the loose in Hudson County, and preying on officers from the Precinct 9 Constable's Office.”

Steve Gaenzle has over 25 years of distinguished service as a peace officer. He has been decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal as well as Meritorious Services to his community. Steve began his career with the El Paso County Sheriff ’s Office in El Paso, Texas, his hometown.

The demand of knowing the Spanish language was paramount in this border town. He instructed in the West-Texas Regional Training Academy in El Paso, Texas and then continued his career in Colorado. He has been a field supervisor, Field Training Officer, undercover detective assigned to the FBI Federal Fugitive Task Force, and a lead homicide detective in a major crimes unit. In addition to being a Spanish language instructor, Steve has instructed Interview and Interrogation, Crime Scene Search and Protection and Colorado Law. Steve has been instrumental in creating new Spanish training programs for dispatchers, Patrol, Jail personnel and created Spanish training programs Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. Steve is recognized as an expert in the field of the Spanish language. Steve is the lead Spanish instructor for the Rocky Mountain High Intesity Drug Trafficking Area.

Steve, who has a degree in sociology/criminology from the University of Southern Colorado, co-authored a book with Jorge Charry on “Spanish Language Concepts for Law Enforcement.”

Bill Hamner, served as a Texas law enforcement official for 32 years. He was a criminal investigator and supervisor for several police agencies, including the Dallas Police Department (1967 to 1974), Gilmer Police Department, and the sheriff’s departments of Kaufman, Johnson, and Bowie Counties.

His first novel, “Night Eyes,” is introduces the character Jack Stone, of the Dallas Police Department and his chase of a serial killer. In the follow-up novel, “Last Musketeer,” Stone returns and “uncovers a high-level conspiracy within his own department to wrestle control from two major crime families that control illegal activities in Dallas. He becomes the target of assassination by those who will stop at nothing to silence him forever. Jack Stone finds himself in a deadly game, fighting for his very existence, pitted against a powerful man chosen to be the next Dallas police chief.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 283 police officers (representing 116 police departments) and their 696 books in six categories, there are also listings of United States federal law enforcement employees turned authors and international police officers who have written books.