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Common Sense Police Supervision
Charles C Thomas 2008; US$ 49.95Thoroughly revised and updated, this practical hands-on book is packed full of step-by-step guidelines and suggestions for carrying out a multitude of leadership tasks and responsibilities focused on a changing work force that serves an equally changing and complex society. While emphasizing the real value of common sense in good leadership practices,... more...
The Trials and Tribulations of Becoming a Swat Commander
Charles C Thomas 2004; US$ 18.95Captain Kolman (ret.), formerly of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, founder and first Director of the National Tactical Officers Association, and who authored one of the first SWAT textbooks in 1982, now brings forth a unique book that not only captures the substantive information required by new SWAT commanders but also its culture.... more...
A Guide to the Development of Special Weapons and Tactics Teams
Charles C Thomas 1982; US$ 31.95By John A. Kolman, Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department. With a Foreword by Peter I. Pitchess. CONTENTS: Organization and Structure; Selection of Personnel; Equipment Requirements; Training the Special Weapons and Tactics Team; Hostage Negotiations; Suggested Response to Tactical Situations; The Future of Special Weapons and Tactics Teams .Appendices:... more...
Reloading for Handgunners
F+W Media 2011; US$ 27.99In Reloading for Handgunners, the reader will learn the benefits of serious handgun ammunition reloading (decreased cost, increased reliability) in an accessible, step-by-step way. In addition, the reader will learn how to avoid the costly, wasteful errors that plague many reloaders, experienced and novice alike. Finally, the reader will enjoy the... more...
Pure Evil
John Blake 2008; US$ 9.99On December 1st, 1996, Lee Harvey was stabbed 42 times in a frenzied knife attack. His girlfriend, Tracie Andrews, claimed he had been murdered in a road rage attack and, days later, appeared at a press conference making an emotional appeal for witnesses to the crime. During the days following the attack, the horrific truth about what really happened... more...
Changing Police Culture
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 34.00In this case study of police racism and police reform in Australia, the author provides a critical assessment of police initiative in response to the problem of police/minorities relations. more...
Forensic Science
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 9.99Forensic science is a subject of wide fascination. What happens at a crime scene? How does DNA profiling work? How can it help solve crimes that happened 20 years ago? In forensic science, a criminal case can often hinge on a piece of evidence such as a hair, a blood trace, half a footprint, or a tyre mark. High profile cases such as the Stephen Lawrence... more...
Steeped in Blood
Random House Struik 2010; US$ 13.00Bloody crimes of passion, political assassinations, sinister poisonings, investment fraud and mass mining disasters ? Dr David Klatzow has seen it all. During his extraordinary twenty-six-year career as South Africa?s foremost independent forensic scientist, he has investigated countless high-profile and notorious cases. Steeped in Blood provides gripping... more...
Three Crooked Kings
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 12.99Journalist and novelist Matthew Condon has crafted the definitive account?a searing story of greed, crime, and corruption?of an era that changed Queensland society; an impact that reverberates across the country to this day. In 1949, a young Terence Murray Lewis graduated from the police academy, ready to start his career in law enforcement. Over... more...
Policing, Race Racism
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Over recent years race has become one of the most important issues faced by the police. This book seeks to analyse the context and background to these changes, to assess the impact of the Lawrence Inquiry and the MacPherson Report, and to trace the growing emphasis on policing as an 'antiracist' activity, proactively confronting racism in both crime... more...









