Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great!!!!!!!
Comment: I really enjoy this book. It is easy to read, and has great humor. I would strongly recommend this book to all Officer's whose primary responsibility is street patrol.
4 STARS ****
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great info.
Comment: Chapters are short and to the point.
I disagree with the others when they say they feel this book is best for beginners. I feel this book is better for those who have been on the job for 5 or more years. I say this because nearly everything covered are things taught in the academy (at least the one I graduated from). Therefore, this would be a good refresher for those who have been on the job for awhile and may have forgotten some of the academy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Advice, Great Review of Training
Comment: I found this book to be a great review of things learned in police training. As a new officer, I found much of the information to be very helpful. It's like a book of advice from a cop that seems to have been there and done that. After reading this book, I feel like I'm on track to having a long, successful career as a cop.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best book I've read related to the job
Comment: Quite simply, its the only book I've ever read outside of college on my personal time that I've taken notes from for my own application to work. Worth reading and keeping. I highly suggest it for future and current officers. It's best geared for the future, or rookie officers. But veterans can get great tips out of it too.
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Summary: Practical advise for beginners and experienced cops alike
Comment: The author is well-known tactics instructor: his previous works include Contact & Cover, a fundamental book on officer survival, which he co-wrote with John Morrison. He has extensive experience as a street cop, so the advise you get from this book are field-tested throughly. The book is comprised from over 50 articles which have been published in a police magazine before (San Diego Police Officers Association publication 'The Informant'). This approach is a two-edged sword. On the other hand this book covers a wide variety of issues, but on the other hand, because most articles are only about 3-4 pages long, the advise you get is quite basic in nature. This creates a problem that the more experience you have on police work, the less useful this book is for you. However, no matter how expeirenced you are, you are still likely to learn something new, or are at least reminded of something that you have forgotten a long time ago.
The articles have been arranged in a alphabetical orded according to the title of the article. In my opinion, it would have been wiser to group the articles by the subject they are covering. Now you get a chapter on avoiding blood-transmitted diseases, followed by article about court survival, followed by article on ground fighting, and so on. And, to make things worse, sometimes it is surprisingly hard to tell what a given article is covering just by the name. So, if you are looking for advise on certain subject, it can be hard to find the right article, if you don't know the name of the article.
Another complaint is that the book is printed in a font that is a bit too small to my taste. It's not too small to read, but if you want to make sidenotes or underlinings to the book (which I like to do), it can be hard because the size of the text.
To sum it up, I would say that for a novice cop, this book is a treasure chest, but experienced cops will benefit from reading it also.
