Showing posts with label orange county sheriff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orange county sheriff. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Police Officer Author and Publisher

Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books, added a police officer who in retirement has not only authored books but founded a publishing company.

Joseph Davis is one of the founders of LawTech Custom Publishing. LawTech publishes high quality textbooks, criminal justice field reference guides, promotional study guides and legal reference manuals. They have an extensive library in the areas of criminal justice, homeland security, investigation, forensic science, emergency management, fire science and emergency medical services. Moreover, their authors tend to be practitioners with real-life experience as well as stellar academic credentials.

Joe retired as a Captain from the
Orange County Sheriff’s Department (CA) after nearly thirty years of service. His commands included the Airport Operations Division (John Wayne Airport Police Services & Air Support Bureau), Operation Support Division (Emergency Management, County Communications Center, & Sheriff’s Communications Center), and the Central Jail Complex (Intake Release Center, Central Men’s Jail and Central Women’s Jails). He also served as the Chief of Police Services for the City of Laguna Niguel.

He has a Masters Degree in Public Administration, is a graduate of the California Command College and FBI Incident Command School, has authored or co-authored ten college textbooks and
police training books, has had articles published in both professional and general publications, spoken at national conferences, and been interviewed on national radio and television.

His book, Report Writing for Law Enforcement” is designed to provide college students, entry-level
police officers and criminal justice professionals such as experienced police officers with appropriate English language information and report writing techniques in a format that can be used on a daily basis.”

His book, Interview and Interrogation with Eyeswitness Evidence “is designed to provide college students, entry-level
police officers and criminal justice professionals such as experienced police officers with comprehensive and in-depth information on the art and science of interview, interrogation and eyewitness testimony.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 313
police officers (representing 135 police departments) and their 734 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.

Friday, February 02, 2007

Five New Authors

Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books five additional authors: Robert Almonte, Tom Avery, William Cavenaugh, Dave Toma and Anthony D’Augustine.

Robert Almonte retired in 2003 after nearly 25 years with the
El Paso Police Department. He spent the majority of his career in narcotics as a detective, sergeant, and commander, until his promotion to Captain, in May of 2000. Ultimately, Robert Almonte retired as a Deputy Chief. Robert’s book, “Covert Operations Management” “is designed to provide students with a basic theoretical and practical understanding of the management, legal and ethical issues regarding covert operations that are applicable within multiple levels of government agencies. Management issues covered include; selection and rotation of personnel, ethics, use of informants, intelligence vs. operations, compare and contrast civilian law enforcement and government activities, basic and advanced investigative techniques, and applied practical skills. This textbook is appropriate for criminal justice, criminal investigation, and homeland security programs.”

Robert Almonte’s second book, “Evolution of Narcotics Investigations,” “is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the evolution of the methods for conducting narcotics investigations. Interaction among
law enforcement agencies as well as contemporary factors regarding investigative complexity will be examined. Students will also be exposed to alternative solutions to the narcotics problem.”

Tom Avery has been an investigator with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, CA, for over 10 years. Tom is currently assigned to the Technology Crimes Unit. He is a Technology Crime trainer for the California Department of Justice. He is also a co-author for a book entitled “Homeland Security Principles, Planning and Procedures.” According to the description, the “text introduces a broad, in-depth look at security planning and procedures. Students will learn to develop skills in interviewing and interrogation techniques, intelligence gathering, surveillances, perimeter and crime scene security, criminal evidence preservation and collection, and principles of crowd and riot control. Additional topics include threat assessment and response, and facility security and vulnerabilities. This text also helps students develop skills in substance abuse recognition, theft, sabotage and espionage. It also covers techniques for dealing with computer security, electronic criminal investigations, firewalls and security software as well as crime prevention techniques. Additional topics include crime prevention, security access control, and security force management.”

William Cavenaugh retired as a Captain form the Laguna Beach Police Department after 30 years of service. The majority of his career was spent in uniform, assigned to traffic enforcement as a motorcycle officer during which time he made thousands of arrests for DUI. Since 1986 he has conducted a one-week long POST approved course on DUI enforcement. The course has regularly been one of the highest rated courses in California POST training. Bill also recently retired as a Colonel form the Marine Corps Reserve after thirty-six years of service.

Bill is the recipient of MADD, USA’s Lifetime Achievement award for his contribution to DUI enforcement. In 2004, Bill received the Governor’s Award for Life Time Achievement in California law enforcement training, primarily for his efforts in DUI enforcement education. William Cavenaugh authored “Drunk Driving Enforcement : The Street Cop's Guide.”

According to IMBD, "Toma" was based on the real-life exploits of Newark, New Jersey narcotics detective
Dave Toma, who in the late 1960's and early 70's, made a name for himself by using unorthodox techniques to get the goods on criminals. He would often dress up as a nun, rabbi, homeless person or any other average citizen in order to blend in and get the drop on pushers.

This TV series started off with good intentions and was a hard-hitting, realistic urban police drama. But star Tony Musante was worried it was going to go the route of every other cop show and just become formulaic. When he pushed for creative changes, producers pushed back and the show ended after just one season. The concept re-emerged the following year as "Beretta" starring Robert Blake.” Toma authored two books, “Toma: The Compassionate Cop” and “Airport Affair.”

Anthony D’Augustine is a former detective lieutenant and firearms training supervisor with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office in New Jersey. He and his wife, Patricia, have four children and one grandson. According to the book description of “Best Enemies,” “After retiring under questionable circumstances, Mac searches to find his daughter and to square up with two of his best enemies. The search takes him to a recreational park in the Catskill Mountains known as Mongaup Pond. When a murder and kidnapping occur at the upstate New York campground, Mac takes it personally.” Anthony is currently working on his second novel, “Just Vengeance,” which chronicles the continued exploits of Mac Taylor.

Police-Writers.com now hosts 292
police officers (representing 122 police departments) and their 710 books in six categories, there are also listings of United States federal law enforcement employees turned authors and international police officers who have written books.