Tennessee, Nebraska and Vermont

Police-Writers.com is a website that lists nearly 700 state and local police officers who have written books. The website added police officers from Tennessee, Nebraska and Vermont.

Joe D. Guy is a former McMinn County Sheriff's Department (Tennessee) deputy sheriff. Currently, Joe Guy is a writer who writes articles on history for Appalachian Life Magazine as well as a weekly newspaper column, "Beyond the Blue Line." He has also written for the nationally distributed Community Policing Exchange. Joe Guy is the author of three books: Beyond the Blue Line: Stories from the Other Side of Law Enforcement; Beyond the Blue Line: Volume 2: Sixty-Four New Stories from the Other Side of Law Enforcement; and, Indian Summer: The Siege and Fall of Fort Loudoun.

According to the book description of Beyond the Blue Line: Volume 2: Sixty-Four New Stories from the Other Side of Law Enforcement, “A State Trooper fights a belligerent clown….A former sheriff is assassinated in a small Tennessee town….Officers respond to a case of a biting duck….A naked man, a shotgun, and a camera…And that old lady the deputy just ticketed, isn’t she…the sheriff’s grandma? In Beyond the Blue Line: Volume 2, former police officer Joe D. Guy once again outdoes himself with a collection of humorous, heartwarming, and sometimes adventurous true stories from the other side of law enforcement.”

In 1982, Utah Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety Robert C. Wadman was appointed Chief of Police for Omaha Police Department (Nebraska). He was the first chief of the Omaha Police Department that was appointed from outside the ranks. Robert Wadman served as chief until 1986. Since 1997, Dr. Robert C. Wadman is a Professor at Weber State University (Ogden, Utah). He teaches criminal justice related courses such as: Introduction to Criminal Justice; Community Policing; Research Methods in Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice Management; Drugs and Crime; and, Victimology. Dr. Robert C. Wadman is the author of Law enforcement supervision: A case study approach; and the co-author of Community Policing and Crime Prevention in America and England and To Protect and to Serve: A History of Police in America.

According to the book description of To Protect and to Serve: A History of Police in America, “This readable book provides a comprehensive and detailed survey of the development of police organization, theory, and practice; and its role in American history. It examines how police have tried to maintain law and order in a democratic society, noting successes, failures, and continuing problems since the colonial period.

Rollie Powell is a retired detective from the Rutland City Police Department (Vermont). He is the author of Killjoy-A Cop's Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse. According to the book description, it “is the story of Rollie Powell's ten-year personal war against child sexual abuse, against the indifference and social denial that allows this crime to exist and grow at an alarming rate. As a detective with Rutland's Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Vermont he offers a full view of the issues from someone who has been on the frontlines - of the perpetrators, the victims, their families, the overloaded justice system and the public media reactions.”

Rollie Powell’s book offers to appendices: Prevention Guide and Resource Guide. “In the Prevention Guide, Powell offers techniques and methods for prevention through educating children, recognizing signs of abuse in children, providing love and support and getting professional help. The Resource Guide is a list of associations, organizations, state agencies and web sites, offering support and information.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 695 police officers (representing 317 police departments) and their 1491 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.