Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Law Enforcement

So many people asked the author: 'But what does a policewoman do?'

Six years policing London's West End in the 1950s provided plenty of answers. In this book, Joan Lock gives them with honesty and humour. She takes us behind the scenes, into the life of an ordinary police officer - not the familiar CID crime buster. We accompany her 'on the beat' for early, late and night shifts, and experience the public's friendly, curious or downright rude reactions to a woman in authority.

The lady policeman makes mistakes, is less than efficient at times, and even breaks some of the...

By the age of twenty-four, Air Force Staff Sergeant Mike Severance had already survived a series of missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. But his life back at home, in Texas, would prove a lot more dangerous...

In the winter of 2005, Mike's wife, a veterinarian named Wendi Mae Davidson, reported him missing. Wendi told police that Mike had been acting erratically-visiting local clubs, staying out late, sometimes not coming home at all. She filed for divorce the very next day.

Eventually Mike's body turned up in a stock pond on a private ranch. Investigators described a corpse that...

In a quiet community of million dollar homes and shiny SUVs, the Nyce family projected the very image of success. Dr. Jonathan Nyce, an asthma sufferer, had achieved medical breakthroughs that made him rich-and offered hope to countless people. Michelle's beauty made her an object of desire. And adultery was her husband's worst nightmare.

Police found Michelle's Land Cruiser floating in a frigid creak near the family home. When forensic investigators examined Michelle's horribly battered body, they knew she had not died in the car. Or by accident.

Soon, the truth began to...

Born and raised in Baltimore, Md., I accepted the position of police officer to help protect and support the people in my community. A far more involved, gratifying and responsible occupation than I had initially imagined, or perhaps even the public realizes. At the tender age of twenty one, I was charged with the working understanding of the law and its enforcement, as well as aspects of training given to legal scholars, doctors, attorneys and psychiatrists. All in order that we could make life or death decisions within split seconds, with only a high school education to qualify us at the...

Around the Clock...Diary of a Street Cop is the story of one man's coming of age, and career in the New York City Police Department. The author escorts you through a journey inside the world of a content young man who came upon this profession quite by chance, and exposes the reader to the daily rigors of the patrol function as it existed in the transitional decades of the 1960's through the end of the 1970's. It underscores how most day to day police activities are not glamorous, nor are they the subject of incidences of super sleuth/who-done-it drama, or nail biting suspense so...

"As a woman who worked as a federal law enforcement officer for 20 years in Miami, I couldn't put BEHIND HER MIAMI BADGE down till I read it all." Vicki Mellon, FBI Special Agen, Ret.

"This book and story take you on a ride along that can only be seen and understood by personal experience until now. Enjoy the ride. I know I did." Stephen M. Daley, M.Ed, CEO/Founder radKIDS Personal Empowerment Safety Education

Miami's vice cops, move over. There's a new sheriff in town, rather a feisty Florida Highway Patrol Trooper named...

Clive s prodigious rise through the ranks of the Met saw him head up some of the most high-profile units at Scotland Yard and saw him put in charge of their policy for sexual offences, domestic violence, child protection and the paedophile unit...

A true crime memoir taking the reader on a journey from his early years investigating some of the notorious counterfeiters and bank fraud masterminds of Las Vegas, Nevada, to personal interactions with presidents and first ladies and a US Supreme Court decision preserving the methods utilized by the Secret Service to protect the life of the president of the United States.

The undercover investigation of a drug-addicted forgery ring targeting Las Vegas casinos and the investigation of an escaped federal prisoner, scamming travel agents out of tens of thousands of dollars. A massive...

A true crime memoir taking the reader on a journey from his early years investigating some of the notorious counterfeiters and bank fraud masterminds of Las Vegas, Nevada, to personal interactions with presidents and first ladies and a US Supreme Court decision preserving the methods utilized by the Secret Service to protect the life of the president of the United States.

The undercover investigation of a drug-addicted forgery ring targeting Las Vegas casinos and the investigation of an escaped federal prisoner, scamming travel agents out of tens of thousands of dollars. A massive...

First published as a collection of blogs raising concerns about police reforms, The Rest Is Silence led to J.J. Patrick's two year fight against the Metropolitan Police Service and one of the most extraordinary examples of whistleblowing in the history of policing.

With Patrick prevented from speaking to the public much of what happened took place behind closed doors, the way Scotland Yard likes it, but there are times they simply pick a fight with the wrong person.

In this definitive edition, Patrick lays the old skeletons to rest for good.

Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world," the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light.

The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city. He unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests. As he exposes their unholy work, he soon learns that no one is safe from black magic--not even the Sun King. In a world...