Thursday, March 10, 2011

1113 Police Officers

Sergeant Edward L. Pinhey, LAPD (ret.) is the lastest police officer added to http://www.police-writers.com/.  The website currently lists 1113 police officers from 472 departments and over 2300 books written by those individuals.

Sergeant Edward (Ned) L. Pinhey, LAPD (ret.) is “born in Los Angeles, California in 1938. He drops out of High School to join the US Navy at 17 and marries his childhood sweetheart at 18. He and wife Dee remain married after more than 54 years. They live outside Sequoia National Park in Three Rivers, California.


His latest novel is The Mormon Cartel, second in the Sergeant Tom Gay, Hollywood Detective Series. The Third book in that series is in the works. He also is the Author of Ned's Story which will be available soon. After he left the Navy, Ned is a Los Angeles Police Officer and rises to the rank of Sergeant. He works as Patrol Officer, Hollywood Vice Officer, Narcotics Detective, Hollywood Detective, and Supervisor.

At the height of the Watts Riots of 1965, Ned and his partner vow to become lawyers. Both make it. Ned graduates from Law School Cum Laude and is admitted to the California Bar for which he credits wife Dee working for LAPD in North Hollywood, to supplement his GI Bill. He leaves LAPD and is lawyer and Administrator to the Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff's Association. Ned takes a four-year hiatus from law practice to be VP Operations of a motor home manufacturer. He sells out of that business and practices law in Santa Maria, California for fifteen years during which he regularly serves as Superior Court Judge pro tempore.

He retires from law after losing his hearing and now enjoys writing and retirement in Three Rivers. Sergeant Edward (Ned) L. Pinhey is the author of Ned's Story, The Mormon Cartel and Hollywood Dicks.

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