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Mark Smith is a “Solo” status, level III, reserve officer for the North Plains Police Department in Oregon. Smith began his career in law enforcement as a cadet and has worked as a reserve for the last four years (approx. 30 hours per week). He also works full time at Portland Community College as a pubic safety officer.

This is Smith’s personal blog. It contains stories meant for entertainment purposes only. These stories are based on real events that he has experienced in the line of duty. The names and locations have been changed to conceal the identities of the actual persons involved.

Mike Moeller has been working as a Deputy Sheriff in California for 13 years. He has been drawing cartoons since college. With strong influences from Gary Larson and Bill Watterson, he draws police-themed cartoons depicting the humor of daily life in law enforcement.

Myles Mellor is one of the most prolific puzzle writers in the world. He publishes 80-100 crossword puzzles monthly for magazines and websites as well as a number of other puzzle creations. He is a syndicated puzzle writer for Tribune Media Services and creates diagramless puzzles and cryptograms for newspapers nationally. His credits include 9-1-1 magazine, Shotgun News, Shotgun Sports, Combat handguns, Tactical Knives, LA Times Magazine, Turner TV, Nasdaq, MasterCard, NASA, American Airlines Eagle, The History Channel, IBM, Oracle, Entrepreneur, Dwell, Land’s End, Discover, Planet Green, Primedia, Gannett Press, American Bar Association, Coastal Living, Costco, Conde Naste and hundreds more. He has published 8 crossword books, distributed through the Books-a-million chain nationwide. A selection of his work can be viewed at www.themecrosswords.com.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a clearinghouse for missing persons and unidentified decedent records. NamUs is a free online system that can be searched by medical examiners, coroners, law enforcement officials and the general public to solve these cases.

Contact the authors with an email via “AskNIJ” at: http://nij.ncjrs.gov/asknij/

NamUs offers free online training to the law enforcement community at http://projects.nfstc.org/namus/. For more information on the online training or how to become a registered user go to info@findthemissing.org or call 727-549-6067 ext. 204.

National Emergency Number Association (NENA) serves the public safety community as the only professional organization solely focused on 9-1-1 policy, technology, operations, and education issues. With more than 7,000 members in 48 chapters across the United States and around the globe, NENA promotes the implementation and awareness 9-1-1 and international three-digit emergency communications systems. Visit the NENA Web site at www.nena.org.

Patrick Patten served as a Law Enforcement Ranger for the National Park Service for 25 years. He has extensive field experience in woodland operations. He served as a Tracker and Tactical Search Advisor on several large-scale manhunts around the country and appeared on several media outlets as an expert tracker. In 2012 he retired as a Lead Instructor from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

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Lieutenant Colonel Paul C. Wood is assigned to North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command (NORAD and USNORTHCOM), Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado where he works in the J5 Plans, Policy and Strategy Division, as the Branch Chief for Homeland Defense Strategy, Policy and Doctrine.

Commander Paul Gregory has been in law enforcement since 1999. He is an instructor in handgun, shotgun, patrol rifle, precision rifle and select fire weapons. Paul is also an Instructor Trainer in handgun, shotgun, rifle and select fire weapons. In 2007, he was appointed to the Colorado P.O.S.T. Subject Matter Expert Committee for firearms where he remains today. Paul has trained hundreds of officers, deputies and investigators throughout the state of Colorado.

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