Howard County Takes a Historical Bite out of Crime

Former KPD officer tells Howard County Law History through vintage images. End Quote

Kokomo, IN (1888PressRelease) November 18, 2014 - The latest addition to Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series is Howard County Law Enforcement from author Tom Kelley. The book boasts more than 200 vintage and modern images chronicling the development and devotion of people, places, and events that has the evolution of law enforcement in Howard County.

"This little book is a tribute to all the men and women of the Kokomo Police Department, Howard County Sheriff's Department, and Indiana State Police who have placed the safety of Howard County residents above their own fortunes, comfort, and well-being. These officers, deputies and troopers have, for more than 100 years, been there for people on the worse days of their lives, when no one else would come and when no one else could help. Let none of us forget what they have done." Says Jon D Zeck, retired Howard County deputy sheriff. Jon also wrote a passionate and immersive introduction for Howard County Law Enforcement.

The book includes some official, declassified crime scene and accident investigation photographs that help illustrate the sometimes horrendous, sometimes humorous work of local law enforcement - many of which were donated for this project by retired law enforcement officers from various agencies within Howard County, as well as the Kokomo Tribune.

What to Know about Howard County Law Enforcement
- Profits from books sold by the Fraternal Order of Police will be used to help fund local events such as Shop with a Cop along with national fundraisers like the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics.
- Retired sheriff's deputy Craig Trott has taken and collected photographs of local police activities for 40 years and worked closely with the author in the production of this project.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States. Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America's people and places. Have we done a book on your town? Visit http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/.

Howard County Law Enforcement
by Tom Kelley, Foreword by Jon Zeck
Images of America Series
Price: $21.99
128 pages/ softcover
Available: November 17, 2014.

Media inquiries contact: William Wallace
843.853.2070 x208
wwallace ( @ ) arcadiapublishing dot com
About the Author of Howard County Law Enforcement.

A former Miami County Sheriff's deputy and Bunker Hill town marshal Tom Kelley was appointed to the Kokomo Police Department in 1979 and served thirty two years as a patrol officer, detective, detective supervisor, training officer, professional standards investigator, vice-commander of the Howard County Drug Task Force and watch commander. He earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Ball State University in 1985 and graduated with the 220th Session of the FBI National Academy at Quantico, Virginia.

He is a regular contributor to several farm machinery collector publications and the author of Guardmount, a military crime thriller set in 1970s Kokomo and Grissom Air Force Base.

What lasting impact do you hope your book will leave?
It is my hope that Images of Howard County Law Enforcement will provide the reader with an entertaining and informative glimpse in to the challenges and sacrifices that Howard County law enforcement officers have endured. Their legacy is a bold tradition of courage, compassion and integrity that has become a core value among every trooper, deputy or police officer who serves the people of Howard County.

As they stand on the shoulders of those officers who have gone before them, it is now up to the contemporary generation of law enforcement officers to live up to the legacy that was left to them, and to now write their own unique history and leave a heritage that is worthy of future generations.

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