Friday, July 13, 2007

Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who have written books. The website added three police officers who have contributed works of fiction: Jim Malloy, Mike Elliot and Mike Smitley.

Jim Malloy, a retired captain from the San Diego Police Department, has over 28 years of law enforcement experience. As a police officer he worked patrol and traffic; as a sergeant he worked motorcycle patrol. After promotion to Captain he was the commanding officer of the central and southeast division, SWAT and other administrative positions. Upon retirement he founded his own private investigations firm in San Diego.

Jim Malloy is a graduate of the FBI academy and has a BS in criminal law. He hold advanced California POST certificates and has served as a law enforcement consultant to other law enforcement agencies including in Spain. Jim Malloy is the author of five novels: Death Whispers; Die Mother Goose Die; Lollipop Murders; Raptor’s Revenge; and, The Twister.

According to the book description of Death Whispers, “With his brother dead, It was his responsibility as head of the family to set things right. Gabriel, nicknamed the Ghost, was pure Cajun protecting his younger brother and sister since age eleven in the swamps of the bayou. Taught to survive by an old Choctaw Indian, he seeks justice for his brother with his bow and arrow. Sergeant Jack Delaney, head of the Doom squad, is stumped. This was a first. Why were these males, seemingly unrelated, showing up with arrows stuck in their heads. Why is the CIA and FBI so interested and why should he be afraid? The hunter is hunted.”

Mike Elliot is a detective with the Poplar Bluff Police Department (Missouri). He joined the Poplar Bluff Police Department in 1978 and recently transferred from the Narcotics Division to Criminal Investigation. Mike Elliot is the author of Jake and Bob: Stories of the Poplar Bluff PD. According to the book description, “All professions have their stories. These are the stories of the police of Poplar Bluff, a smallish city at the foothills of the Missouri Ozarks. These are stories that men who need heroes and comfort tell each other. They define a certain aspect of a police officer’s life in Poplar Bluff. Sometimes sad, often funny, but always told in the voice of real coppers—they are our legends and folk history. Follow Jake and Bob as they try to figure out just what it means to be a police officer. Maybe in the end you will find out for yourself.”

Mike Smitley has over thirty years of law enforcement experience. He began his career in a small Kansas police department and over time worked patrol, detectives and as a sergeant. He retired from that department in 1997. He then became the Chief of Police for a small police department in Wisconsin. He left the Wisconsin department to become the chief of police of the Junction City Police Department (Kansas). Mike Smitley has a BS in criminal justice and a Master's in the Administration of Public Affairs.

After his police career,
Mike Smitley began writing and also established his own publishing company, Father’s Press. Mike Smitely is the author of Dead Files, Prey and Implied Contract.

According to the book description of
Mike Smitley’s Implied Contract, “in the world of law enforcement, there are few things more complicated and exasperating than the investigation of a serial murder. Multiple victims and multiple crime scenes require extra attention and extraordinary analytical skills. The rare instance of a sniper serial killer is perhaps the most challenging investigation of all. With little evidence and lots of danger, a high-powered rifleman represents an investigator's worst nightmare. That nightmare has come true for the characters in Implied Contract.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 634
police officers (representing 279 police departments) and their 1353 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.

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