Police Officer Books

Police-Writers.com is a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books. The website added three police officers Gerald Garner, John Jardine and Victor Kim to the list of 576 police officers who have written books.

Gerald W. Garner is Chief of Police of the Greeley Police Department (Colorado). He is a 36-year veteran of law enforcement, having commenced his policing career as a patrolman at the Victoria, Texas Police Department in 1969. He spent 30 years with the nationally acknowledged Lakewood, Colorado Police Department, retiring at the rank of division chief in 2003. He then went on to become the Chief of Police for the Fort Lupton Police Department (Colorado), and now, the Chief of Police for the Greeley Police Department.

Chief Gerald Garner has amassed extensive experience in grass-roots policing. In addition to his work as a patrol officer, he has served as a patrol sergeant, detective supervisor, patrol watch commander, crime prevention and public information specialist, academy director internal affairs commander, and patrol division chief.

Chief Gerald Garner is the author of over 200 magazine and journal articles on law enforcement topics. Many of the articles address officer safety subjects. He has also authored six books on policing. He instructs widely and has served as a guest lecturer at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Academy at Quantico, Virginia and for the International Association for Chiefs of Police.

Chief Gerald Garner is the author of Surviving the Street: Officer Safety and Survival Techniques; Common Sense Police Supervision: Practical Tips for the First-Line Leader; Chief, the Reporters Are Here: The Police Executive's Personal Guide to Press Relations; High Risk Patrol: Reducing the Danger to You; Police Role in Alcohol-Related Crises; and, Police supervision: A common sense approach.

John Jardine was twenty-one when he joined the Honolulu Police Department. Over time, he became a Honolulu Police Department legend. His autobiographical look at cases from the 1920s through the 1940s, is an exceptional look at underworld crime and Crimes in Honolulu.

Former Honolulu police officer Victor J. Kim was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He began working for the Honolulu Police Department in 2004. His book is The Unofficial Honolulu Police Department Training Academy Guide: Tips and Advice on How To Succeed.

As a former Honolulu Police Department police officer, Victor Kim “offers his experience in training at the Honolulu Police Academy to help you get a head start in this difficult career. Filled with interesting and sometimes comedic insights on the police profession, Victor Kim discusses typical working hours, a police recruit's monthly salary, firearms training, and simulated crime investigations.’

Victor Kim also helps you prepare for this new and challenging period of your life by describing the typical life of a recruit. The Unofficial Honolulu Police Department Training Academy Guide also features: Past exam questions; Training academy experiences; DUI procedures and reports; and, Current information on the Honolulu Police Department.

Police-Writers.com now hosts 576 police officers (representing 242 police departments) and their 1216 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.