200 Police Departments

Police-Writers.com is a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books. With the addition of Brett Ward and George Kirkham, Police-Writers.com now lists books from police officers employed by 200 police departments in the United States.

Brett Ward began his law enforcement career as a member of the Belleair Police Department. After 13 months, he joined the Clearwater Police Department (Florida) and retired in 2003. He has a BA in Criminology. Brett Ward’s book is Bulletproof: A Cop’s Guide to Financial Success. Brett Ward says his book is, “a firsthand, narrative style guide, written in retrospect, in which I lay out in detail how an average cop was able to successfully retire from a career in law enforcement at a young age, financially secure, and how you can, too. Every conceivable element I could imagine within the realm of finances, written directly to and concerning a law enforcement audience, has been addressed. Bulletproof covers how to get started on a sound saving/investing regimen; examines scenarios that everyone falls into; provides a full chapter answering questions you must have about the book’s content. Most of all, though, Bulletproof gives you the tools you’ll need to build the financial security necessary to retire successfully. It is tailored to you, my brother and sister officers.”

Dr. George Kirkham is nationally and internationally known as "the professor who became a cop." Dr. Kirkham took leave of his university post in order to study the police and the problems of crime in a way that no criminology professor had before, by becoming a police officer. Taking a leave from his university duties, George Kirkham attended the police academy and worked the streets as a patrol officer. From 1974 to 1991, he was a police officer for the Tallahassee Police Department (Florida).

According to his biography, “his observations on the police have appeared in research and law enforcement journals in many other countries, including England, Canada, Germany, India, Australia and Russia. He has authored 23 law enforcement training films and video tapes which are used to instruct police officers and administrators throughout the nation. Under grants from the U.S. Department of Justice, Dr. Kirkham's award winning film series, "Police: The Human Dimension" was distributed to the law enforcement training directors of all 50 states and the F.B.I. Academy. This series is also used at Peel Centre in London to train the British Metropolitan Police.

Dr. Kirkham has served as a consultant to over 50 American law enforcement agencies at the federal, state and local levels. He has been called upon more often than any other criminologist in the nation to serve as a case consultant and expert witness in civil and criminal actions involving police, jail and private security issues. His experience as a consultant to both plaintiffs and defendants throughout his professional career encompasses over 1,500 cases in all 50 states.” He is the author of three books. Two of them are on police operations. His third book, Signal Zero, is his autobiography.

Police-Writers.com now hosts 471 police officers (representing 200 police departments) and their 980 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.