Newest Cops are Searchable by State

Note: One of the writers is prior military.

Police-Writers.com is a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books. For the first nine months of the website, it was searchable by police officer, department and subject. Today, the website is also searchable by state. With 220 police departments listed, visitors can “click” on their state and browse the departments in their state that have produced police authors; and ,find their way to the over 536 police officers and their 1143 books. Additionally, new authors Richard A. Smith, C.C. “Bud” Daniels and Jane Huffman were added to the website.

Richard A. Smith spent nearly 18 years in law enforcement as a deputy sheriff, jailer, patrol deputy, vice investigator, Public Safety Officer (police and fireman combined) Airport Police Officer, uniform patrol police officer, and an investigator in Criminal Investigations Division.

Richard Smith has an Advanced Law Enforcement Certification, the highest level to achieve in this field in North Carolina. He has over a thousand hours of training from various law enforcement schools. He attended Durham Technical Community College and North Carolina Central University where he majored in Criminal Justice.

Richard Smith belongs to Durham Masonic Lodge #352, Raleigh Scottish Rite Bodies, Amran Shrine Temple, American Legion, The 40 & 8th La Socie’te, and The Fraternal Order of Police. He served with the U.S. Army (Reserve) in the field artillery. He is currently medically retired from the Durham Police Department (North Carolina).

According to the description of his book, One Stands Alone, “This book is for those important people in our lives that we take for granted, and everyone that ever thought about joining the ranks and becoming one–the law enforcement officers! Take a trip through the experiences of going to murders those happened just moments earlier. Find out the tenseness of car chases over 100mph along with the moments of making a drug deal.

This book will take you through many episodes of what the “inside life” is of a law enforcement officer from the streets to the divorce courts, to dignitary protection. He writes of the strain of the equipment the officers wear to coming to work with long hair and a beard.”

C. C. “Bud” Daniels was born February 12, 1912. At the age of 20, he arrived in Wichita Falls (Texas), in 1932. He became the director of the Wichita Falls State Hospital, but eventually joined the Wichita Falls Police Department. He started in the Police Department at the bottom rung, writing tickets. In 1949, after the dismissal of a corrupt chief of police, Daniels’ name was submitted as a “corruption free” alternative to the chief. Indeed, on August 20, 1949 he became the chief of police, Wichita Falls Police Department. Chief Bud Daniels would hold the position until his retirement in 1977.

Chief Bud Daniels was a graduate of the 1951 class of the FBI National Academy; president of the Texas Police Association; director of the Texas Safety Council, a member of Masonic Lodge No. 635; and, in 1944 he served as the Worshipful Master of J.A. Kemp Lodge No.1287. Joseph A. Kemp Lodge No. 1287 was chartered in 1944 by the Grand Lodge of Texas. It was the third Lodge located in Wichita Falls, Texas and was named for the one of the city's prominent citizens.

His book, the Memoir of C.C. “Bud” Daniels, was published in 1991 and tells his amazing story.

A 13th civilian police writer was added to the website. Jane Huffman is the author of two books. One is a police mystery called To Live/To Die; the story of a serial killer and the detective who is trying to solve the case. The second, Secrets Kept, is a story of a young business man who finds himself the survivor of a plane crash in the jungles of South America. The young man, before being rescued, finds something that will change his life forever.

Jane Huffman is the wife of author Richard Neal Huffman, (Author of Dreams In Blue: The Real Police). She is the grandmother to 14 grandchildren (last count and still growing.) Jane once served with her husband, a full time police officer, as a reserve officer for the Bangor, Michigan police department. She currently is employed in the private sector.

Police-Writers.com now hosts 536 police officers (representing 220 police departments) and their 1143 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.