In From MUSKEG to MURDER, Andrew Maksymchuk details his experiences as an OPP officer in remote Northwestern Ontario, overcoming the challenging environment isolation, limited training, poor transportation and communication resources. Written with humour and ingenuity, this book is a unique insight of the OPP in Canadian police history.

There has never been a Canadian expose as complete or explosive as “Dispersing the Fog”. Revelations abound. This book will leave no head in Ottawa unturned. Its revelations will either change the RCMP or plow it under, because there is no other option left. This book connects the dots and finally sheds light on why things are the way they are in the RCMP, Ottawa and across the country. This book is must read for anyone interested in the RCMP and its future.

Tales from a small-town cop. From mundane duty tht breaks into a terror-stricken gun battle to that routine shoplifting call with humerous overtones “Police Stories” has it all. The stories are set in a Northern Ontario communitiy and follow the members of the local police service through their difficult and sometimes comical duties. The author, Chief of Police (retired) George Berrigan’s thirty-two year police career put him in a unique position to reveal the private world of policing.

He offers the perspective of a compassionate insider of the problem of youth violence, discussing the issues of gun laws, gangs and drugs, providing pragmatic solutions and insights on street gangs in North America.

Get the basics in arrest, search and seizure, release, and charging an offender. For the first time you will also read about officer discretion and use of force. With its proven problem solving approach you will know the right thing to do when someone is on the wrong side of the law.

This book wil teach you how to communicate more effectively with subordinates, children, and friends with whom you are having difficulties. Communication is the bottom line skill of today’s style of managing. If you can communicate better you will realease a flood of creative energy that will almost drown you.

This title is available exclusively as an electronic PDF edition.

This book effectively bridges both the theoretical and practical aspects of police work. It surveys current research and policy to examine the structure, operation and issues facing policing in the 1990’s and the approaching millennium.

A hands-on case study approach combining the most recent materials with case studies and exercises making the connection between literature and practical applications of key ideas and concepts.

Readers will be shown how to distinguish between mere suspicion and “reasonable grounds”. Other topics include: crime scene preservation, interviewing witnesses, and determining the means of death.

This book covers the first decade in the history of the North West Mounted Police, a decisive period in the development of Western Canada. Major changes took place without widespread bloodshed largely due to the work of the Mounted Police.

First released in 1999 and revised in 2006, this book responds to the need for a comprehensive leadership development model for the education and training of police, justice and public safety supervisors, managers and front line officers.

A pocket-sized durable drug reference manual designed for street cops. This book is a quick reference book that explains symptoms officer would view in people under the influence of the most common street drugs.

A second book in the “First Response” series which is designed to inform parents, teachers, medical personnel, social workers, fire fighters, and children regarding the symptoms of the most common street drugs.

This book, reviewed in the Jan. 2000 issue, responds to the need for a comprehensive leadership development model for the education and training of police, justice and public safety supervisors, managers and front line officers.

This title is available exclusively as an electronic PDF edition.

Readers will be shown how to distinguish between mere suspicion and “reasonable grounds”. Other topics include: crime scene preservation, interviewing witnesses, and determining the means of death.

This book will help you to effectively develop interview techniques that will uncover the guilty and eliminate the innocent, consistent with the requirements and scrutiny of a court of law.

The sequel to “A Double Duty”, this book covers the 1885 North-West Rebellion. The role of the Mounties has been down-played by historians, but this doesn’t do justice to the officers who battled and died at Duck Lake, Loon Lake and many more.