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Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who have written books. The website added three police officers from police departments within the state of North Carolina.

From 1985 to 1988, Dr. Grover Maurice Godwin was a police officer for the Oxford Police Department (North Carolina). He left the Oxford Police Department to pursue his education. After completing his undergraduate and graduate work in the United States, he went to England “where he studied in a one of a kind criminal psychology program at the University of Liverpool. Dr. Godwin is first American to hold a Ph.D. in Investigative Psychology. His expertise and scientific research in areas of psychology, serial killers, criminal behavior, and linking unsolved crimes distinctly sets him apart from the vast number of criminal profilers who rely on intuitive based opinions.” In addition to his teaching at university and his forensic consulting business, he is the author of five books: Tracker: Hunting Down Serial Killers; Hunting Serial Predators; Slave Master, True murder story of Internet Serial Killer; Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling; and, Hunting Serial Predators: A Multivariate Approach to Profiling Violent Behavior.

According to the book description of Tracker: Hunting Down Serial Killers, “Maurice Godwin uses inductive analysis, environmental psychology, behavioral psychology, crime site information, and other factors to create the most accurate psycho-geographical profiles available. In Tracker, we learn that "[Godwin's] work is based on the collection and critical analysis of over 100,000 data points and 200 different crime scene actions that could be used to profile the killer." Godwin explains, "Instead of relying on interviews with murderers, I studied specific pieces of behavioral information available from the crime scene or case file to develop a psychological profile of the killer and to pinpoint where he lives." Godwin further states, "I’m more interested in getting in the killer’s shoes rather than his mind."

Jon Goodman is a former police officer for the Lumberton Police Department (North Carolina); and, the founding President of that department’s Police Benevolent Association. During his post law enforcement career he has been a private investigator, record producer, radio announcer and investigative journalist in the Philadelphia area. Jon Goodman is the author of The King of Novelty.

According to the book’s description, The King of Novelty “is Jon Goodman's revisionist epic for posterity of his father, legendary novelty artist and sampling pioneer THE KING OF NOVELTY is Jon Goodman's revisionist epic for posterity of his father, legendary novelty artist and sampling pioneer Dickie Goodman, a man contending with internal conflict and familial obligations while entertaining the world.”

Guilio Dattero has been with the Reidsville Police Department (North Carolina) since 1982, where he currently serves as Captain of Detectives. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and the FBI. National Academy. He is the author of Bloody November.

According to the book description of Bloody November, “Detective Clark Dixon, recently divorced, is fed up with his job. Nothing’s going right. But when a ruthless gang strikes Stuartsboro, Dixon rises to the challenge; and, he’s in for more than he knows. His hopes ride high on crucial evidence collected at the scene of a brutal robbery, yet when it’s sent to the state lab, the results get falsified. Foul-up or conspiracy?”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 662 police officers (representing 293 police departments) and their 1418 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.