Patrick J. Proudler Books

A law enforcement officer's thirty-year professional journey is recounted through his lectures to recruits attending the police academy. Commentaries on the business of policing intertwine with colorful accounts of investigations and assignments. Sketches portraying his role as a patrol officer, detective, homicide cop, internal affairs investigator, and police academy training coordinator richly depict the variety of positions afforded to a career police officer. The lecture series is both educational and compelling. This easy-to-read book will engage both the civilian and sworn communities. The chronicles are inspired by actual events infused with the personal and thoughtful insight of the city police detective who lived them.

The authors refer to this book as PPP, succinctly encapsulating the trappings of police, politics, and the press that should resonate with Americans of every generation. Contemporary volatility mostly invalidates the extraordinary pressure and influences imposed on local law enforcement officers. This handy, insightful read illustrates their challenges, failings, and successes documented by a detective and public information officer collaborating in a Florida police department. Most telling and unique in the annals of journalism and government, is the newspaper editor's mayoral ascent compromising the same law enforcement protocols as the incumbent he obsessed over.