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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...
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...
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...
SWAT Teams
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT, teams stand at the forefront of modern law enforcement, merging daring, life-or-death tactics with cutting-edge police technology. These elite units conduct paramilitary operations in the full view of the media, performing missions ranging from hostage rescue and apprehension of violent felons to drug raids and... more...
Bomb Squad
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00Criminals use explosives to kill, maim, and intimidate, and as a tool for robbing banks, safes, homes, and other targets. Terrorists first utilized explosives in the 17th century in a failed plot to assassinate England's King James I. Since then, militant groups such as the Irish Republican Army, the Ku Klux Klan, and al Qaeda have used bombings... more...
Digital Forensics for Network, Internet, and Cloud Computing
Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 72.95Network forensics is an evolution of typical digital forensics, where evidence is gathered and analyzed from network traffic. This book will help security and network forensics professionals, as well as network administrators, understand the challenges faced by organizations and individuals investigating network-based criminal cases. The authors not... more...
Technocrime
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 48.95This book is concerned with the concept of 'technocrime'. The term encompasses crimes committed on or with computers - the standard definition of cybercrime - but it goes well beyond this to convey the idea that technology enables an entirely new way of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals, police, courts, victims and citizens.... more...
Policing Public Disorder
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 51.50This book draws on a wide range of studies of collective conflict and the policing of crowds and social movements to provide an understanding of the causes and management of public disorder. It seeks to describe and explain the processes by which the police interpret and respond to instances of public disorder, to account for variations in their strategies... more...
Training Strategies for Crisis and Hostage Negotiations
Charles C Thomas 2009; US$ 40.95Training Strategies for Crisis and Hostage Negotiations was written for trainers who are tasked with providing role play: scenario-driven training that is challenging, novel, interesting, varied, and motivating. A trainer may play a larger role as leader, expert, teacher, coordinator, planner, facilitator, resource manager/librarian, observer/evaluator,... more...









