Phoenix Police Officers

Police-Writers.com is a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books. The website added the first police officers from the Phoenix Police Department: Richard F. Groeneveld; Jacquelyn MacConnell and Jack McLamb.

Richard F. Groeneveld is a police commander and has been with the Phoenix Police Department for over 26 years. Currently, the director of the Police Department Crime Laboratory, he has worked patrol, undercover narcotics, property investigations, the tactical response unit, the police academy, and the computer services bureau.

He is the author of Arrest Discretion of Police Officers: The Impact of Varying Organizational Structures. According to the book description, “Groeneveld studies the conceptual and fundamental aspects of organizational influence over police discretion in field arrests. He finds that street-level discretion by field officer—the basis of community policing--can, and is, significantly affected by organizational structures. Most departments attempt to limit or at least delimit officer discretion in making arrests. Arrest issues are no less critical to policing than those pertaining to the use of deadly force.

A comparatively small number of arrests results in any appreciable prosecution, and an even smaller number in conviction. The arrest decision process has represented a major gap in the conceptual area of discretion control, especially at the organizational level of scrutiny.”

Lieutenant Jacquelyn MacConnell joined the Phoenix Police Department in 1994. During her career she worked as a patrol officer, undercover detective and in the Phoenix Police Department Training Bureau. While assigned to the Training Bureau, in addition to teaching tactical courses, she initiated a Spanish language program for police officers. After leaving the Training Bureau, she became a detective working in the Sex Crimes Unit. Currently, Lieutenant Jacquelyn MacConnell supervises patrol squads Maryvale
Precinct of the Phoenix Police Department.

Lieutenant Jacquelyn MacConnell completed the Arizona POST General Instructor Course in 1996. She is also an Arizona POST certified Defensive Tactics, Firearms, High Risk Vehicle Stops, and Spanish Instructor; and holds other instructor certifications. She is a regular instructor at the Arizona Law Enforcement Academy, specializing in Defensive Tactics and Spanish. Lieutenant Jacquelyn MacConnell has an undergraduate degree in criminal justice and Masters in Educational Leadership.

Lieutenant Jacquelyn MacConnell is the author of Basic Spanish For Police Officers By A Police Officer. According to her book description, “The author is not a Spanish professor but wrote this book focusing on terminology that will be understood on the street. The book contains closed ended questions for a variety of investigations including assault/domestic violence, robbery, stolen vehicles, burglary, drug possession/sales cases, traffic stops, traffic accidents. The most important part of this book is the high risk stop/contact commands. This book is written for the officers who have little to no understanding/knowledge of the Spanish language, as well as offering information to those who do have a basic understanding/knowledge of Spanish. It is the author's desire that this book allow officers to conduct their jobs safer.”

Jack McLamb joined the Phoenix Police Department in 1976. He worked as a Patrol Officer, Intelligence Officer for City Gang Squad and police academy instructor. In 1986, he sustained a career-ending injury while apprehending a drug smuggler. Jack McLamb is the author of Operation Vampire Killer 2000 - American Police Action Plan for Stopping World Government Rule.

Police-Writers.com now hosts 550 police officers (representing 227 police departments) and their 1164 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.