Guiding Principles for Training at the Department of Justice

Yesterday, Deputy Attorney General James Cole issued a memorandum to all component heads and United States Attorneys outlining a set of core principles for training conducted or funded by the Department of Justice.

Training is an important part of fulfilling the department’s responsibilities to keep America safe and ensure the fair and impartial administration of justice.

As Deputy Attorney General Cole notes in his memorandum:

“This responsibility demands that Department representatives perform their duties consistent with the Constitution and Department values, at the highest level of professionalism, and in a manner that conveys respect for all.”

Following the discovery last year of problematic training materials used in certain instances, Deputy Attorney General Cole issued a memorandum on September 28, 2011 to component heads and United States Attorneys to review all training materials and presentations provided by their personnel. Building on that directive, this memorandum directs all training adhere to the following core principles:

 1.Training must be consistent with the Constitution and Department values.

 2.The content of trainings and training materials must be accurate, appropriately tailored, and focused.

 3.Trainers must be well-qualified in the subject area and skilled in presenting it.

 4.Trainers must demonstrate the highest standards of professionalism.

 5.Training must meet Department standards.

These guiding principles both reflect longstanding department values and highlight the importance of ensuring that the department continue to respectfully engage with the diverse communities it has the privilege to serve.  The principles are the result of the collaborative effort and input of representatives of relevant department components and U.S. Attorney’s Offices, which participate in the Attorney General’s Arab-Muslim Engagement Advisory Group.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Partners with State, Local and Provincial Authorities in Emergency Response Exercise

Walhalla, ND — On March 1, 2012, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel participated in a multi-agency tabletop exercise at the Walhalla port of entry to test emergency management coordination.

This exercise brought together approximately 60 individuals from CBP, Canada Border Services Agency, local law enforcement, emergency managers from Pembina, Cavalier, Towner and Ramsey Counties, and emergency responders from both Canada and the United States to discuss a hypothetical emergency scenario and inter-agency coordination.

The exercise focused on resource coordination, communication, public information and identification of critical safety issues.

Exercise facilitator and CBP Sarles, ND Port Director Bill Socwell stated “This exercise helped build capabilities that can be applied to a wide variety of incidents”. Scowell was very impressed with the number of agencies that participated in this event.

The scenario was based on a CBP officer who was caught in an intense winter storm while traveling from the Sarles port of entry to the Pembina port of entry, and never arrived.

The tabletop exercise simulated incident notification, search operations, and rescue operations.

Discussion topics included logistics, operational decisions and impacts, communication between and among agencies, and with the media. Working through the exercise scenario helped fine-tune a bi-national response plan.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.

NCIS Crime Reduction Program Fights Sexual Assault

By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Charles Oki, Naval Criminal Investigative Service Public Affairs

QUANTICO, Va. (NNS) -- The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Crime Reduction Program (CRP) began its first quarter campaign of fiscal year (FY) 2012 with a focus on sexual assault prevention.

The CRP was created in 2008 to help military members and their dependents prevent crimes they may face at home and abroad. NCIS uses command training briefs and community outreach events to help spread the message of how to avoid becoming a victim.

In fiscal year 2010, more than 3,000 cases of sexual assault were reported among all of the branches of the military. Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 6495.01 defines sexual assault as intentional sexual contact, characterized by use of force, threats, intimidation, abuse of authority, or a situation in which the victim does not or cannot consent.

Through collaboration with the Office of the Judge Advocate General, Family Advocacy Program, the Chaplain Corps, public affairs elements and other Department of the Navy assets, NCIS is engaging with its Sailors and Marines to help stop potential incidents.

"Education is a big part of sexual assault prevention," said NCIS Special Agent Bob Vance, a special agent desk officer for family and sexual violence. "Unfortunately, one of the biggest things we're fighting is properly educating ourselves as a society. Something we face is that many people don't view sexual assault as a very serious offense, and, because of that, it occurs more often. If we don't educate the public, sexual assault will continue to occur."

According to statistics from FY2010, military members ranked E-1 to E-4 and those ranging from 20 to 24 years of age have the highest risk of becoming a victim of sexual assault. A major factor in most cases is the consumption of alcohol by the victim, suspect or both, along with the suspect being a friend or a coworker.

"Bystander intervention is one of the most effective ways of diffusing a possible situation," said NCIS Special Agent Carrie Nelson, the special agent desk officer for the CRP. "Doing something as simple as speaking up when someone is making unwanted advances on a friend or stranger might save them from becoming a victim. A lot of incidents could have been prevented if people knew what kind of warning signs to look for and how to intervene."

Other examples of bystander intervention include making up an excuse to get someone away from a risky situation, telling a bartender or party host that someone has had too much to drink, trying to keep someone from going to an isolated location, and maybe even calling the police.

DoD has two sexual assault reporting policies: restricted and unrestricted. Under restricted reporting, a victim may notify a victim advocate, sexual assault response coordinator (SARC), healthcare provider, or chaplain. Law enforcement is not notified and an investigation will not be initiated. Victims will be provided a victim advocate and will sign a statement of reporting preference.

With unrestricted reporting, an official law enforcement investigation is initiated, victims will be provided a victim advocate, a SARC will monitor their care, and victims will be updated monthly on the status of the investigation. Once a victim decides on unrestricted reporting, they cannot change it to restricted reporting.

Victims of sexual assault or witnesses with information about a sexual assault can call the NCIS Hotline at 1-877-579-3648 or the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673), which will connect the caller to a local rape crisis center. Tips may also be submitted online with the NCIS confidential web tip information system, https://www.tipsubmit.com/webtipsNAV.aspx?AgencyID=840. Personnel stationed overseas may utilize the NCIS hotline or the online web tip system.

NCIS is a federal law enforcement agency that protects and defends the U.S. Department of the Navy against terrorism and foreign intelligence threats, investigates major criminal offenses and provides law enforcement and security services to the Navy and Marine Corps on a worldwide basis. The agency is comprised of approximately 2,400 total employees, including 1,200 civilian special agents, in more than 150 locations around the world.

ATF and U. S. Attorney Conduct Violent Crime Initiative Training For 20 Plus State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies

CHICAGO — An advanced training seminar for state and local law enforcement investigators from more than 20 agencies was held today announced Andrew L. Traver, Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Field Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton, Southern District of Illinois; Assistant United States Attorney Dee Dee Durborow Southern District of Illinois; and Larry A. Washington, Resident Agent in Charge ATF Fairview Heights Field Office. The instruction was presented through classroom lectures and practical exercises.

The curriculum involved firearms trafficking, E–Trace, NIBIN/IBIS System, homicide investigations, online–lead evaluations, straw purchaser investigations, interstate nexus, IBIS/NIBIN shell casing processing collection and other information required by ATF in the Metro East Violent Crime Initiative.

ATF is a law enforcement organization within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). ATF is dedicated to the reduction of violent crime, prevention of terrorism, and protection of our nation. ATF investigates and prevents crimes that involve the unlawful manufacture, sale, possession and use of firearms and explosives; acts of arson and bombings; and illegal trafficking of alcohol and tobacco products. ATF regulates the firearms and explosives industries from manufacture and/or importation through retail sale. We screen and license entities that engage in commerce in these commodities, and specify the form and content of their business records.

ATF uses partnerships in all aspects of our regulatory, law enforcement, training, and forensic mission areas. Our partners include industry groups, professional organizations, international, Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement, other federal and public safety agencies, academia, and the communities we serve. We work closely with all our partners to achieve our mutual goal of reducing violent crime and protecting national security. We rely on industry’s support and participation to maximize our effectiveness to prevent violent crime and work with industry to minimize regulatory constraints that hinder legitimate business.

Partnership to Help Army Reserve, D.C. Police Share Same Talent Pool

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service

July 14, 2008 - The adage, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," got a new twist today as the Army Reserve and the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia signed a partnership deal so they can recruit, hire and train people for both organizations. MPDC became the first law enforcement agency to partner with the Army Reserve in a unique arrangement that Army Lt. Gen. Jack Stultz, chief of the Army Reserve, called a win-win for the military as well as the police. Instead of competing for the same talent pool, they can now join forces to fill their ranks and train their members.

The agreement, signed at the Metropolitan Police Academy here, enables Army Reserve recruiters to refer recruits signing on as military police or active-duty military police joining the Army Reserve for civilian jobs with the MPDC. Similarly, the police department can refer its members for Army Reserve jobs.

The arrangement will enable the two organizations to help each other fill critical shortages while also taking advantage of the training and experience base both provide their members, Stultz said.

Thomas F. Hall, assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs, noted today that the Army Reserve and MPDC are looking for recruits with many of the same attributes. Both want honest, drug-free members who know how to lead as well as follow and love their country and communities, he said.

Army 1st Sgt. Ryan Ervin of the 200th Military Police Command at Fort Meade, Md., also an MPDC officer, said the Metropolitan Police Department and Army Reserve both stand to benefit from sharing the professional, career-minded and goal-oriented recruits each attracts. Army experience gives police recruits an ability to think on their feet, work within a command structure and show flexibility when it's needed, he said.

Meanwhile, Stultz said, civilian police experience brings strong negotiating, interrogation and crime scene investigation skills to the Army Reserve.

The MPDC partnership is the Army Reserve's fifth so far, but about 50 others are in the works and nearly 150 additional employers have expressed interest in forming one.

What makes the concept so popular, even in the face of reserve deployments, is that it helps employers realize the upside of hiring Army Reservists, Stultz said. "Don't look at the Reserve as a drain on your force. Look at it as a value added," he said he tells employers.

As the long list of employers considering new partnerships grows, it's evident that employers already recognize the attributes Army Reservists bring to their work force, said Army Col. Dianna Cleven, an Office of the Army Reserve director. The advantage of partnerships, she said, is that it provides a formal structure so employers can find and tap into the Army Reserve's talent base while also providing an avenue for Army Reservists to link up with potential employers.

"It's a mechanism to link reservists looking for jobs in specific skills," Cleven said. "We're providing that mechanism through these partnerships that helps them connect the dots."

The MPDC, which needs to recruit about 350 police officers a year, sees the Army Reserve as a prime recruiting ground, Assistant Chief Joshua Ederheimer said during today's partnership signing ceremony at the Metropolitan Police Academy. He noted that the two organizations share a cultural ethos of service and sacrifice, with their members understanding and accepting personal risk to protect their fellow citizens.

Meanwhile, because the Army Reserve provides 93 percent of the Army's total military police force, its members who report for duty with the MPDC arrive with extensive military police training already under their belts.

Some arrive after active-duty assignments in military police units. Others are new recruits who attend basic training, then advanced individual training in military police skills before reporting to their Army Reserve units and starting their civilian careers.

"By that time, he is not just a high school graduate. Now he is a soldier," Stultz said. "He's got discipline. He's got leadership. He's got a work ethic and he's had training. Then (MPDC) can take him and develop him further."

MPDC Chief Cathy Lanier called the new partnership "a very significant and important step for us" that will help her department recruit and retain the high-skilled work force it it needs. "It will help make our force stronger and our city safer," she said.

Lanier can look within her own force for a glimpse into what the new partnership will offer. One of her officers, Greg Naguerka, arrived at the Metropolitan Police Academy in 2005 with seven years of military police experience that he said gave him a big leg up over his fellow police cadets.

Now an Army Reserve staff sergeant with the 200th Military Police Command at Fort Meade, Md., Nagurerka said his Army experience made him mentally prepared and physically fit for his police training and provided a strong foundation for his police career.
Army Sgt. Scott Dignan served with the MPDC for six years before joining the Army Reserve 12 years ago, and said the military has trained and tested him in ways that have boosted his civilian career.

"It has opened my eyes to a whole different way of leading and has been a true asset to me," said Dignan, now a lieutenant with the Metropolitan Police Department. "Between the leadership training and the deployments, it has taught me a lot about myself and given me experience that's been invaluable."

Stultz called today's signing ceremony a big day not just for the Army Reserve, but for the Army as a whole, which counts on its citizen-soldiers to sustain the all-volunteer force. To do that, he said, the Army Reserve needs to work cooperatively with civilian employers.

"A number of employers out there are saying that this is a great idea," and a way to attract everything from truck drivers to medical technologists to engineers to law enforcement officers to their work forces. "You name it, we've got it," Stultz said. "Partnerships help provide the conduit."

Afghan National Police Training Continues Despite Obstacles

By Air Force Staff Sgt. Beth Del Vecchio
Special to American Forces Press Service

June 13, 2008 - Surrounded by Afghan National Police, the U.S. Army staff sergeant moved the water-bottle caps around in the dirt, as if on a checkerboard. But, there was no board, and this was no game. It was training. With different obstacles facing the trainers at Forward Operating Base Scorpion, unconventional methods of training are common. The language barrier may seem to limit the training, but the trainers and mentors are committed to mission execution, no matter what the means.

Army Staff Sgt. James Parks, a police mentor team member from Buffalo, N.Y., uses the bottle caps to demonstrate a wedge formation, a type of patrolling technique. That day, his group was working on the "rush and roll," the "low crawl," and other basic combat reactions under fire. This training usually is for soldiers; however, due to the counterinsurgency environment, the Afghan National Police need these skills to survive and defeat the enemy.

"We train them in basic combat skills so they can stay alive out there," Parks said. "It seems basic to us, but it's stuff that they just don't know to do when there is enemy contact."

The majority of the police training at the Regional Training Center in Kandahar is Afghan-led, but the three American and three coalition mentors work with Afghan police commanders and trainers to coach and advise the new recruits on basic combat skills.

"The language barrier is the biggest obstacle we face," Parks said.

Just like the bottle caps, the U.S. mentor team used colored blocks to demonstrate how to clear a building. They assigned colored blocks to each police officer on the clearing team and set corresponding colored blocks on the inside of the building. That way, the police would know by looking at the colored blocks where they needed to position themselves once inside the building.

Once the police officers finish the eight-week course at the RTC, they are sent out to districts in southern Afghanistan. But their training doesn't stop once they're in the field.

Regional Police Advisory Command South, with headquarters at FOB Scorpion, acts as a command post for several police mentor teams spread out through Afghanistan's southern districts. Nearly 10,000 ANP officers work in the field, and the mentor teams travel from district to district to train, advise and mentor the police.

Army Col. John Cuddy, Regional Police Advisory Command South commander, oversees training for the RTC and the police mentor teams.

"The mentors and the PMTs are the front-runners of our mission here," he said. "It's amazing what these men are doing with what they have."

Cuddy said the mentor teams visit the district police after they have left the regional training center and ensure they sustained those skills learned during training and are conducting their basic function as police officers: to serve and protect. The PMTs also ensure the police are getting paid and fed.

"If the ANP aren't paid, they go AWOL. If they aren't armed, they get killed in the night," he said.

Cuddy said reports of real progress come from the districts.

"We are getting feedback that the Taliban doesn't recognize the ANP they fight now," he said. "The ANP are starting to fight back. Before, they didn't have the training in basic fighting or survival skills, so they would surrender or run."

Afghan Brig. Gen. Nassurullah Zarifi, commander of the Afghan National Police Kandahar Regional Training Center, has more than 35 years of experience, including time with the Afghan National Army. He worked for 16 years as an instructor in the ANA before he was transferred to the RTC.

"We have 350 students here, but not enough instructors. The American and coalition instructors help us to educate our people," he said. "While they are here, my instructors, deputies and myself work hard to ensure the students are trained properly and will do their job correctly when they leave the RTC to go to their communities."

He said he receives positive feedback from the provinces about the police who graduated from the eight-week training program at the RTC.

"They are happy to have the new ANPs in their community," Zarifi said. "This is a long process, not a short-term answer. We are working on the security for the future of Afghanistan."

(Air Force Staff Sgt. Beth Del Vecchio serves with Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan Public Affairs.)

Author James H. Lilley

May 22, 2008, 2008 (San Dimas, CA) On May 28, 2008, Conversations with Cops at the Watering Hole will feature an interview with James H. Lilley.

Program Date: May 28, 2008
Program Time: 2100 hours, Pacific
Topic: An Interview with James H. Lilley
Listen Live: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/LawEnforcement

About the Guest
James H. Lilley was selected as the 2008 Police-Writers.com Author of the Year. The author of the year selection was based in part on writing ability and in part on career and community service.

James H. Lilley began his lifetime of public service as a United States Marine, in 1961. Shortly after his discharge, he joined the Howard County Police Department (Maryland), graduating first in his class. During his career his received numerous honors such as Medal of Valor, four Bronze Stars, four Unit Citations and the Governor’s Citation. James H. Lilley has published six novels, articles in Police Chief Magazine and authored an International Association of Chiefs of Police training key. Moreover, he began studying Martial Arts in the early 1960s and is a 8th Degree Black Belt in Shorin Ryu Karate; the first American to achieve this recognition and honor from Sensei Takeshi Miyagi.

James H. Lilley submitted, for the 2008 Police-Writers.com Author of the Year, as an example of his work, The Eyes of the Hunter (PublishAmerica 1997). One of the Police-Writers.com judges said of James’ writing, “He is a mature writer with strong plot, character and story development.” Another judge said, “easy to read, and it was very good escapism. The writer has some absolutely beautiful passages wherein he describes a sound or a vista. The sex scenes are pretty hot, too.”

James H. Lilley’s current project is a true crime book and he has entered two of his books in the upcoming Hollywood Book Festival.

About the Watering Hole
The Watering Hole is police slang for a location cops go off-duty to blow off steam and talk about work and life. Sometimes funny; sometimes serious; but, always interesting.
About the Host
Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster was a sworn member of the Los Angeles Police Department for 24 years. He retired in 2003 at the rank of Lieutenant. He holds a bachelor’s from the Union Institute and University in Criminal Justice Management and a Master’s Degree in Public Financial Management from California State University, Fullerton; and, has completed his doctoral course work. Raymond E. Foster has been a part-time lecturer at California State University, Fullerton and Fresno; and is currently a faculty advisor and lecturer with the Union Institute and University. He has experience teaching upper division courses in law enforcement, public policy, law enforcement technology and leadership. Raymond is an experienced author who has published numerous articles in a wide range of venues including magazines such as Government Technology, Mobile Government, Airborne Law Enforcement Magazine, and Police One. He has appeared on the History Channel and radio programs in the United States and Europe as subject matter expert in technological applications in law enforcement.

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Graffiti

This police training guide addresses effective responses to the problem of graffiti which is seen as a persistent and intractable problem and is often related to other crime and disorder problems. A major factor discussed is what motivates graffiti offenders, including psychological needs, excitement, a sense of control, and elements of risk, and as a form of public communication.

Key questions to ask in dealing with graffiti control are addressed, such as what are the types of graffiti, where is it located, when is it perpetrated, who are its victims, how much is there, how big is it, and how many incident reports are received. Having answered these questions, it is stressed that it is then necessary to measure the effectiveness of responses. Useful measures of response effectiveness include the extent to which graffiti is reduced, moved, or reflects a change in offenders' tactics. Appropriate responses are discussed, including reducing rewards to offenders by detecting graffiti rapidly and routinely, monitor graffiti-prone locations routinely, increase reporting of incidents and offenders, remove it quickly, and increase the risk of detection. Also, increasing the difficulty of offending is recommended by vandal-proofing and/or controlling access to graffiti-prone locations, and focusing on chronic offenders.

Limited effectiveness responses include limiting access to graffiti tools, channeling offenders to more acceptable behaviors, providing alternative services and activities, and involving youth in developing programs, expanding applicable laws, holding parents accountable, using new technologies, establishing juvenile curfews, and warning offenders. The guide concludes with a table summarizing responses to graffiti.

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Italian Carabinieri to Begin Training Iraqi National Police Forces

By Jamie Findlater
American Forces Press Service

Sept. 21, 2007 - The NATO Training Mission in Iraq is developing a new Gendarmerie-type police training program focusing on key leadership skills taught by an Italian Carabinieri training unit. The French Gendarmerie and Italian Carabinieri are military bodies charged with police duties among civilian populations. Officials believe this approach is ideally suited to security conditions in Iraq.

Italian Maj. Gen. Alessandro Pompegnani, deputy commander of the NATO Training Mission, said he is confident that new efforts to expand police training under guidance of the Italian police force will be highly successful in allowing Iraqi security leadership to develop "the right mentality."

"The conditions of the streets of Iraqi towns and cities are quite different than many of the streets in Europe," Pompegnani said yesterday in a conference call with online journalists and "bloggers."

However, he said he is confident that the tactics of the Carabinieri police training that has "proven effective in over 100 countries (is) certainly applicable to the Iraqi forces."

Pompegnani outlined the progress of operations and explained plans for specialized program in the region, projected to begin in October. The specialized law enforcement training program, employing the careful guidance and mentoring support of about 40 Carabinieri soldiers, will equip 75 percent of Iraqi security leaders in country, he explained.

The two-year program will train a core of eight battalions of national police at Camp Dublin, near Bagdad International Airport. Each course will include two months of intensive training focusing on counterinsurgency, modern forensic techniques, and riot and crowd control, he said.

The work is focused on training, advising and mentoring Iraqi mid- to senior-level leaders. This will give the Iraqis "a unique opportunity to modernize and streamline their leadership standards," Pompegnani said.

The Iraqi Ministry of Interior and Iraqi national police authorities have approved the new training structure, and Camp Dublin is being refurbished to accommodate the law enforcement training. Officials also are working to procure equipment for the program, the general explained.

The NATO Training Mission in Iraq was established in 2004 to assist the Iraqis in building their security forces. Seventeen countries involved in this effort on the ground, and nine other countries provide equipment, material and strategic support.

(Jamie Findlater is assigned to the New Media branch of American Forces Information Service.)

Vampires, Hell Raisers and Homeland Security

August 13, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com is a website that lists over 700 state and local police officers who have written books. The website added three additional police officers who have authored books: Frank Borelli, James Lardner and Willard M. Oliver.

Lieutenant Frank Borelli is the Training Commander for the Fairmount Heights Police Department (Maryland) and has been a law enforcement instructor since 1989. Using his six-year military background and twenty-year police background, Frank Borelli regularly writes equipment evaluations and incorporates new technology into his police training programs. Currently Lieutenant Frank Borelli teaches use of force programs at all levels of law enforcement and corrections.

In addition to his police and military service, Frank Borelli began a writing career in 1999. With several dozen articles published internationally, he has become a recognized expert on police training techniques and technologies. Frank Borelli is currently a weekly columnist for the Blackwater Tactical Weekly as well as Officer.com, and Editor of the Borelli Consulting Forum News & Intel page. Frank Borelli s also the Editor In Chief for New American Truth magazine, a monthly publication launched in January 2007; and, a contributing editor for American Cop magazine, published bi-monthly. He is also the author of A Cop's Nightmare: Cloning the Ancients, A Cop's Nightmare 2: Vampires in the Old West (the first two installments of a planned 12 series) and American Thinking.

According to the book description of A Cop’s Nightmare 2, it “pits Morgan Blackwell and his best friend, Chuck Bendetti, against a conspiracy to recreate the state of Colorado as a “pure” vampire region. Traveling back to the 1860s, Morgan and Chuck find themselves pitted against a full team of vamp-clones, sent back to further the success of the conspiracy. As Morgan and Chuck battle vamp-clones and Indians in the old west, Karl and Don keep the modern-day vampire mayoral candidate from successfully completing the plan of a pure vampire colony started one hundred and thirty years before!”

James Lardner is a senior fellow at Demos was a police officer for the Metropolitan Police Department (Washington, DC) for two and half years during the early 1970s. Today, he is a well-regard researcher and writer. As a journalist, he has written for the New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The Nation, among other publications. He is the author of Crusader: The Hell-Raising Police Career of Detective David Durk; and, the co-author of NYPD: A City and Its Police and the editor of Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences.

According to the book description of Crusader: The Hell-Raising Police Career of Detective David Durk, “When David Durk joined the New York Police Department in 1963, he found an organization with its own set of rules, where bribery and payoffs were routine and no one wanted to be disturbed. Durk set out to fix the whole mess. For 22 years, until he was forced to retire at age 51, he was a thorn in the side of mayors, police commissioners, commanders, sergeants, and beat cops alike. His crusading led to an investigation into police corruption in the 1970s by the Knapp Commission (credit for which usually goes to Frank Serpico) and more recently, the Mollen Commission.”

Willard M. Oliver began his law enforcement career as a summer police officer for the Wildwood Police Department (New Jersey). In 1989, he enlisted in the U.S. Army reserves and served as a military police officer in Desert Storm. From 1991 to 1994 Willard Oliver was a police officer for the Arlington County Police Department (Virginia). In 1994, Willard Oliver embarked on his academic career by becoming an assistance professor of criminal justice at Glenville State College (West Virginia). Today, Dr. Willard M. Oliver, Ph.D.,is an Associate Professor at the College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University (Texas). Willard Oliver is also a Major in the United States Army Reserves, Military Police Corps.

Dr. Willard Oliver is the author of Community-Oriented Policing: A Systemic Approach to Policing, Homeland Security for Policing, The Law & Order Presidency, and Community Policing: Classical Readings. He is the co-author of A History of Crime and Criminal Justice in America and The Public Policy of Crime and Criminal.

According to the book description of Homeland Security for Policing, is “unique in focus, Homeland Security for Policing presents a framework for understanding the role police play in today’s era of Homeland Security. The only book of its kind, it examines the events that led up to this new policing era, the relationship between national, state and local agencies, and specific strategies, operations and tactics that can be used to prevent and protect against future threats. Special emphasis is placed on understanding 9-11, the entire framework of Homeland Security in the U.S. and the unique issues faced by local law enforcement.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 705 police officers (representing 325 police departments) and their 1521 police 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.

Duty, Death and Crime

Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who have written books. The website added three police officers: Michael P. Tremoglie; Maria Watson; and Reuben Greenberg.

Michael P. Tremoglie is a former Philadelphia Police Department police officer. Michael P. Tremoglie is currently a staff writer for The (Philadelphia) Evening Bulletin and a columnist for FrontPage Magazine. His work has regularly appeared in publications such as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Human Events, Pittsburgh Tribune Review and the Lansdale Reporter. He has a BA in accounting and a Masters in Criminal Justice. He is the Author of A Sense of Duty.

According to the Philadelphia Bulletin, A Sense Of Duty “does for big city police training what Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam classic, "Full Metal Jacket" did for U. S. Marine boot camp. Tremoglie's attention to detail and understanding of the psychological hazards circling around his characters draws its readers into a world fraught with pending disaster, mixed with the joy of accomplishment, and then hit with the harsh reality of the eventualities its inhabitants tried so hard to avoid. A Sense Of Duty deals with clashes between cultures, social status, ideologies, political parties, races, sexes, along with hopes and dreams.”

In 1976, Maria Watson and her twin sister Margie were part of the first 100 women hired for patrol duty by the Philadelphia Police Department. During her law enforcement career, Maria Watson worked uniformed patrol, narcotics, juvenile aid division and sex crime’s child abuse unit. She retired from the Philadelphia Police Department in 1996. She is the author of the novel Dead in Fairmont Park.

According to the book description of Dead in Fairmont Park, “Michelle Burns, Philadelphia Police Lieutenant, like other female African American lieutenants without a squad to command, was buried behind a desk in homicide. That all changed when the third body was found in Fairmount Park's nature trails.”

Reuben Greenberg was the African American Chief of Police of the Charleston Police Department (South Carolina). In 1967, he received a BA degree from San Francisco State University and he has two master’s degrees, one in public administration and the other in city planning, both from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught sociology at California State University, political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and criminal justice at Florida International University.

His career in law enforcement spanned three states before he arrived in South Carolina in 1982. While in California, he served as the undersheriff of the San Francisco County Sheriff's Department. A Savannah, Georgia, he was a major with the city's police department. In Florida, he was chief of police at Opa-Locka and chief deputy sheriff of Orange County, rising to deputy director of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Reuben Greenberg is the author of Let's Take Back Our Streets!

According to Publisher’s Weekly, “Greenberg disputes the contention that law-breakers are victims of circumstance; they commit crimes by choice, he argues, and ought to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. He also stresses that the function of punishment is, indeed, to punish. This is a book of tough talk from a police chief who firmly believes that we are all accountable for our actions and urges both police and citizens not to surrender to hopelessness about crime.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 680 police officers (representing 305 police departments) and their 1455 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.