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Reading Library

Dispersing the Fog

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.


Police Stories

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.


Young Thugs: inside the dangerous world of Canadian street gangs

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.


Basic Police Powers - 4th Edition

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.


Boss Talk

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.


Canadian Police Work

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.


Community Policing in Canada

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.


Criminal Investigations: Forming Reasonable Grounds - 5th 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.


A Double Duty

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.


Every Officer is a Leader - 2nd Edition

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.


First Response Guide To Street Drugs

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.


First Response Guide To Street Drugs - Club and Designer 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.


Five Minute Police Officer

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.


Impaired Driving Investigations - 4th 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.


Investigative Interviewing

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.


A Trying Time

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.

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Publishers Commentary

Morley Lymburner

Policing is the economic summit success story

I did not expect to write about the police handling of the economic summit. Upon viewing the event and listening over the months to all the preparations I was quite content that it was a textbook crowd control process, performed so well that nothing further needed to be said.

After talking to friends, family and other media people I realized that not everyone shares my opinion and are being fed considerable misinformation. So, here’s my opinion about that perfect storm and the perfect remedy supplied by a lot of dedicated people from

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Quality of life

The quality of life, safety and security of Edmonton’s more than one million residents are the top priorities for the Edmonton Police Service (EPS). The latest example – an annual policing plan outlining policing priorities and performance targets developed last year saw crime decrease by more than two per cent, despite the slowing economy and other environmental factors.

The service continued to work towards its goal of reducing crime and victimization by responding to priority one calls within seven minutes, 90 per cent of the time; dedicating 25 per cent of patrol time to proactive activities; and working closely with community partners.


Judge didn’t believe officer, excluded evidence

Although the odour of raw marijuana may be sufficient to justify an arrest, if the judge doesn’t believe the officer smelled it the arrest is unlawful and the evidence may be thrown out.

In R. v. Noel, 2010 NBCA 28, a police officer, accompanied by a specially trained drug-sniffing dog, saw a vehicle traveling at a speed slightly in excess of the posted limit and decided to stop it and warn the driver. A license plate query indicated “no record found” and Noel, the lone occupant, was pulled over

Blue Line News Week

Officer missing in boating mishap in Yukon

Jul 15 2010

MAYO, Yn – Boat crews, aircraft and a dive team from the Yukon and British Columbia descended on a small village in the territory Wednesday to help in a desperate search for a missing rookie RCMP officer.