August 18, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added new categories of police authors. In response to reader requests, Police-Writers.com has begun research into international police officers. According to Raymond E. Foster, CEO of Hi Tech Criminal Justice, “The main idea of the website remains the same – collecting and listing state and local police officers who have written books, but we have added a separate category listing other law enforcement officials.” Peter Walker, an English bobby, is the most recent addition to the list of international police writers.
"Nicolas Rhea" is only one of the six pseudonyms under which Peter Walker has written roughly 130 books in the last 40 years. This amazing career is rooted in the application of his own experience - whether it is from being a village bobby, a Yorkshire villager, a police press officer or a father of four.
Nicholas Rhea was born the son of an insurance agent and a teacher in 1936 in the North York Moors village of Glaisdale. The oldest of three children, he won a scholarship to Whitby Grammar School but left at 16 to become a police cadet. In 1956, he joined the North Yorkshire force as a beat bobby in Whitby. He also began to write seriously after years of casual interest, having his first short story published in the Police Review.
Three years later he moved to the region's Police Headquarters at Northallerton before being posted to Oswaldkirk, about 20 miles north of York, as the village bobby in 1964. He then became an instructor at the police training school in 1967, the same year as his first novel, Carnaby and the Hijackers, was published. He was promoted to sergeant in 1968 and inspector in 1976, when he was also appointed Press and Public Relations Officer.
He retired in 1982 after 30 years' service to concentrate on his writing, encouraged by an interest in his Constable books from Yorkshire Television. Now in his late 60s, Nicholas Rhea still writes full-time. He has four children and seven grandchildren, and lives with his wife in a quiet North Yorkshire village.
In addition to the international listings, Police-Writers.com now lists 91 American municipal police authors and their 243 books in six categories.
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