Tactics and Collision Investigations

October 13, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com is a website that lists over 770 state and local police officers who have written books. The website added police officers who have written about police tactics and traffic collision investigations.

Captain James Stalnaker of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department has over 39 years of experience in law enforcement. Prior to becoming a law enforcement official, he spent six years in the military. During James Stalnaker’s law enforcement career he has had assignments in corrections, patrol, detectives, internal affairs and SWAT. His law enforcement leadership experience includes working as a sergeant in patrol, the training coordinator for his SWAT team, the executive officer of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Training Division; commanding officer of the Narcotics/SWAT detail and as an Patrol Station Commander. James Stalnaker is the author of Building Search: Tactics for the Patrol Officer.

Although written primarily for patrol officers, Building Search: Tactics for the Patrol Officer, “presents search concepts and tactics that can also be used effectively by SWAT teams, narcotics officers, probation and parole officers, and security officers. Building Search: Tactics for the Patrol Officer is packed with advice and practical tactics devised and used by a law enforcement veteran with nearly 40 years of law enforcement experience, from the streets to homicide and SWAT as an operator and supervisor. This book isn't about theory. The author has searched every type of building and has devised a tactical search method that is simple, effective, and emphasizes officer safety first.”

David Casteel, senior collision analyst, provides consultation and expert witness services to governmental and private sector clients in the areas of traffic collision causation, analysis and reconstruction. Before joining the Ayres Group in 1992, David Casteel worked for the San Diego City Attorney’s Office as a litigation investigator and collision analyst for more than six years. He was member of the San Diego Police Department for thirteen years. David Casteel is qualified as an expert in accident reconstruction in superior, municipal, federal court and arbitration. He has completed a variety of accident investigation, collision analysis, biomechanics and other related courses at the University of North Florida, Long Beach State University, University of California, San Diego and holds a B.S. in mathematics (engineering emphasis). He also is lecturer in the field and co-author of Basic Collision Analysis and Scene Documentation and Pedestrian Accident Reconstruction and Litigation.

Jerry Eubanks has been involved in the investigation and reconstruction of traffic collisions for more than twenty-five years. From 1976 to 1978, Jerry Eubanks was a reserve police officer. For seven years, he worked as a regular and traffic police officer for the San Diego Police Department. Jerry Eubanks assisted in the development and instruction of 40-hour basic and 40-hour advanced traffic collision investigation courses. He is an ACTAR Accredited Reconstructionist who also operates a successful business as an expert witness in the field. His client base is both varied and international sides in criminal and civil cases.

Jerry Eubanks has been involved in more than 1172 crash tests, of which more than 388 have involved pedestrian, and over 121 bicycle impacts. He has taught Pedestrian Accident Reconstruction courses at Boise State University, the Canadian Police College, and between 1990–2001 he was an adjunct instructor for the Texas Engineering Extension Service, Texas A&M University system. In 2002, he started to instruct for Collision Safety Institute (CSI) in California. He is the co-author of Pedestrian Accident Reconstruction and Pedestrian Accident Reconstruction and Litigation

Police-Writers.com now hosts 774 police officers (representing 350 police departments) and their 1658 law enforcement 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.