California Law Enforcement Writers

October 22, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com is a website that lists nearly 800 state and local police officers who have written books. The Website added three California Law Enforcement officials who have authored books.

Steven D. Moss is a consultant to law enforcement agencies throughout California and an instructor at the San Diego Regional Law Enforcement Training Facility in Traffic Investigation and Collision Analysis. He designed and implemented revised field procedures for DUI and served as instructor in the techniques for attorneys and law enforcement agencies. He was a police officer for the San Diego Police Department from 1977 until his retirement in 2005. His assignments include patrol, collision, investigation bureau, drinking driver enforcement, off-road enforcement, motors/speed enforcement, detective - traffic investigation unit.

Steven D. Moss has an advanced POST certificate from the State of California and has qualified in both municipal and superior courts for the state of California as an expert witness in all facets of collision reconstruction. Steven Moss has a BPA and an MBA, both from National University. He is a general partner in the firm of C and M Collision Analysis and a college instructor in traffic investigation and collision analysis. Steven Moss is the co-author of Basic Collision Analysis and Scene Documentation.

Steve R. Willard is a 20-year member of the San Diego Police Department. A writer for law enforcement periodicals, Steven Willard also serves as the vice president of the San Diego Police Historical Association, which supplied the vintage photos for his Images of America, San Diego Police Department. Since joining the San Diego Police Department in 1985, Steve Willard has worked “patrol, crime prevention and the detective bureau. In addition to extensive expertise in forensic video and composite artistry and covert alarm systems, Vice President Willard holds a certificate in intermediate Crime Scene Investigation from California State University Long Beach and an advance certificate from the California Department of Justice. He has also obtained certificates in intermediate and advanced courses in fingerprint classification and identification through the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” He is also the author of America’s Finest: The History of San Diego City Law Enforcement.

According to the book description of Images of America, San Diego Police Department, “The San Diego Police Department dates to 1889, when out-of-control crime forced the end of the highly ineffective city marshal’s office. With violence on every corner and Tombstone’s venerable Wyatt Earp running the marshals’ gambling interests, change was desperately needed. But the first days of the SDPD weren’t easy. Within two years of its formation, the city’s economy tanked, 36,000 of the town’s 40,000 citizens left, and the department’s newly appointed chief refused to take the job. Still, San Diego eventually developed into one of the nation’s largest cities and most popular tourist destination—a multifaceted metropolis perched between the extremes of Los Angeles and Mexico, the Pacific Ocean and the desert. Today more than 2,000 highly trained sworn SDPD officers, 700 support staff, and more than 1,000 volunteers form one of the world’s most innovative and internationally recognized police forces.”

Gary Hoving is the Chief Deputy of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department. He is the author of Crime Scene Investigation: A Manual for Patrol Officers and Journey of Justice.

Police-Writers.com now hosts 780 police officers (representing 351 police departments) and their 1664 law enforcement 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.