Forensic Science @ MindSay 
Program Date: July 24, 2009
Program Time: 2100 hours, Pacific
Topic: Forensic Investigator
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About the Guest
Esther Mckay served seventeen years in the New South Wales Police Force, attaining the rank of Detective (technical) Senior Constable. She worked in the area of Forensic Services for fifteen years, attaining expert status in crime scene examination and vehicle identification. She also worked in Training and Research, as well as Document Examination. She has a Diploma of Applied Science in Forensic Investigation (NSW Police), and was awarded the National Medal for service in 2001 and the Ethical and Diligent Police Service medal with fifteen-year clasp in 2008.
Esther Mckay was discharged from the force in 2001 with post-traumatic stress disorder as a direct result of her forensic work. She is the author of the best-selling autobiography, Crime Scene: True Stories from the Life of a Forensic Investigator and the upcoming book, Forensic Investigator: True Stories from the Life of a Country Crime Scene Cop.
Esther Mckay works actively in supporting traumatized serving and former Police and is the President of the Police Post Trauma Support Group. She was awarded the Pride of Australia Medal in 2007 for Community Spirit for her work with traumatized Police, and regularly speaks to various groups and schools about her life experience, writing and former forensic work. Esther is patron of the Australian Missing Persons Register and has been an Australia Day Ambassador since 2007. She lives in the Southern Highlands with her husband and two children.
About the Watering Hole
The Watering Hole is Police slang for a location cops go off-duty to blow off steam and talk about work and life. Sometimes funny; sometimes serious; but, always interesting.
About the Host
Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster was a sworn member of the Los Angeles Police Department for 24 years. He retired in 2003 at the rank of Lieutenant. He holds a bachelor’s from the Union Institute and University in Criminal Justice Management and a Master’s Degree in Public Financial Management from California State University, Fullerton; and, has completed his doctoral course work. Raymond E. Foster has been a part-time lecturer at California State University, Fullerton and Fresno; and is currently a Criminal Justice Department chair, faculty advisor and lecturer with the Union Institute and University. He has experience teaching upper division courses in Law Enforcement, public policy, Public Safety Technology and leadership. Raymond is an experienced author who has published numerous articles in a wide range of venues including magazines such as Government Technology, Mobile Government, Airborne Law Enforcement Magazine, and Police One. He has appeared on the History Channel and radio programs in the United States and Europe as subject matter expert in technological applications in Law Enforcement.
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Military-Writers.com is pleased to announce the addition of these servicemembers to the website:
Lt. General Albert P. Clark, USAF (ret.)
Major General James Pocock, USA (ret.)
Brigadier General Nick Halley, USA (ret.)
Brigadier General Dorothy B. Pocklington, USA (ret.)
Brigadier General Albin F. Irzyk, USA (ret.)
Colonel John F. Welch, USAF (ret.)
Colonel Carroll V. Glines, USAF (ret.)
Colonel Charles L. Crain, USA (ret.)
Colonel Eric H. Vieler, USA (ret.)
Colonel Edward Vaughan Coggins, USAF (ret.)
Captain Stanford E. Linzey, USN (ret.)
Captain Dale R. Herspring, USN (ret.)
Lt. Colonel Calvin W. Vraa, USA (ret.)
Lt. Colonel Roland Everett Langford, USA (ret.)
Lt. Colonel Ronald K. Culp, USMC (ret.)
Lt. Colonel James B. Pocock, USAF (ret.)
Lt. Colonel Herman L. Gilster, USAF (ret.)
Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters, USA (ret.)
Lt. Colonel Michael P. Elcano, USA (ret.)
Lt. Colonel Charles T. O’Reilly, USA (ret.)
Commander Raymond B. Allen, USN (ret.)
Commander John C. Whitehead, USN (ret.)
Commander George Sigler, USN (ret.)
Lt. Commander James A. Brink, USN (ret.)
Major Lothar Maier, USAF (ret.)
Major Samuel D. Greco, USAF (ret.)
Major W.L George Collins, USAF (ret.)
Captain Malcom S. Macgruer, USMC (ret.)
Captain Edgar F. Puryear, USAF (ret.)
Captain Roger M. Baty, USA (ret.)
First Lieutenant Donald Springer Hawley, USA (ret.)
The Website now lists 802 servicemembers and their 2583 books.
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Military-Writers.com is pleased to announce the addition of these servicemembers to the website:
Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore, USA (ret.)
Brigadier General Edmund L. Dubois, USA (ret.)
Colonel Garnett C. Brown, Jr., USAF (ret.)
Colonel Albert C. Smith, USMC (ret.)
Colonel Alex A. Vardamis, USA (ret.)
Colonel Albert S. J. Tucker, USA (ret.)
Colonel Jerry Crews, USA (ret.)
Captain Peter A. Huchthausen, USN (ret.)
Lt. Colonel Jud McLester, USAF (ret.)
Lt. Colonel James H. Willbanks, USA (ret.)
Lt. Colonel Frank E. Roberts, USA (ret.)
Commander Roger Paul Huff, USN (ret.)
Commander Allan Forst Geimer, USN (ret.)
Commander Ray C. Oman, USN (ret.)
Lieutenant Commander Carl V. Smith, USN (ret.)
Chief Warrant Officer William Arket, USA (ret.)
The Website now lists 687 servicemembers and their 2308 books.
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October 26, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com is a website that lists nearly 800 state and local police officers who have written books. The Website added three San Francisco Police Department police officers.
Sergeant Peter Thoshinsky graduated from San Jose State University in 1982 with a degree in Criminal Justice. In June of 1982, he joined the San Francisco Police Department. He was promoted to sergeant in 1990. He worked the Poterero, Central, Southern and Ingleside Stations as well as the Narcotics Bureau. A 20 year veteran of law enforcement he also served as a member and supervisor on the San Francisco Police Department’s SWAT team. A photograph for almost 30 years, he is the author of Blue in Black & White, a collection of photographs relating to law enforcement.
Inspector Mark Hawthorne is a 28 year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department. He has been assigned patrol, field operations and investigations. His current assignment is Crime Scene Investigations. As a POST instructor he specializes in Instructor Development, Preliminary Investigations and Crime Scenes. As a an adjunct faculty member of the City College of San Francisco Administration of Justice and Fire Science Department he acts as an advisor to the Forensic Science Club. Inspector Mark Hawthorne is the author of First Unit Responder: A Guide for Physical Evidence Collection for Patrol Officers and Fingerprints: Analysis and Understanding.
According to the book description of First Unit Responder: A Guide for Physical Evidence Collection for Patrol Officers, “Physical evidence cannot be wrong; it cannot perjure itself; it cannot be wholly absent. Only its interpretation can err. Only human failure to find it, study and understand it, can diminish its value." -Presiding Judge, Harris v U.S., 331 U.S. 145 (1947) HOW TO MAINTAIN THE INTEGRITY OF THE CRIME SCENE WHILE CONDUCTING AN INVESTIGATION. First Unit Responder: A Guide to Physical Evidence Collection for Patrol Officers is a training guide and reference for patrol officers and criminal investigators, who conduct preliminary investigations of crime scene, to aid in identification, collection, and booking of physical evidence. Written by a veteran of 24 years of law enforcement, the book stresses the importance of understanding the critical nature of physical evidence and preservation of the crime scene as part of the case against a criminal defendant. This book is an important tool for police academies that train recruits and veteran patrol officers, as well as for students of criminal justice who seek guidelines for proper collection and handling of physical evidence”
According to Corporal Andreas K. Mendel, NCO in Charge, Forensic Identification Section, West Vancouver Police, in Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal, “Mark Hawthorne's easy writing style and use of personal anecdotes make this book a relaxed read. First Unit Responder is a good resource for recruit training or criminal justice/criminology students, or as review material for seasoned investigators.”
Prentice E. Sanders was the Chief of Police of the San Francisco Police Department for fourteen months in 2002 and 2003. He was born in Texas and moved to San Francisco's Laurel Heights at the age of fourteen. After serving in the Army, he then received Bachelor's and Masters Degrees from Golden Gate University. Prentice Earl Sanders joined the San Francisco Police Department in 1964, becoming the San Francisco Police Department's first African American chief of police. In 2006, Prentice Earl Sanders and co- authored The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights.
According to Publisher’s Weekly, The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights is a “look at a largely forgotten reign of terror in San Francisco in 1973 and 1974 is an interesting if superficial true police procedural. Sanders, the SFPD's first African-American chief of police, was one of the lead detectives on the case code-named the Zebra Murders, involving a group of African-American men who, apparently racially motivated, were targeting whites in vicious random acts of violence that claimed 15 lives. The book reads less like an objective assessment of these events than a memoir of Sanders's experiences with the investigation and his role in a civil lawsuit against the SFPD to combat rampant racial discrimination. Oddly, about halfway in, the authors break the linear narrative with information derived only at the case's end, rather than lay out the police work and discoveries as they happened. The efforts to compare the police tactics with post-9/11 targeting of Muslims will strike most readers as labored despite Sanders's insistence that the killings were acts of political terror, not mere serial killings. Nonetheless, this serves as a useful introduction to the case.”
Police-Writers.com now hosts 786 police officers (representing 352 police departments) and their 1674 law enforcement 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.
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