| Behind Her Miami Badge: Undercover, the Cocaine Wars, and Life in the Fast Lane Contributor(s): Turner, Floy (Author), Clark, Sherrie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1943106029 ISBN-13: 9781943106028 Publisher: Storehouse Media Group OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Law Enforcement - Humor | Topic - Business & Professional |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6" W x 9" (1.03 lbs) 318 pages |
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| Publisher Description: "As a woman who worked as a federal law enforcement officer for 20 years in Miami, I couldn't put BEHIND HER MIAMI BADGE down till I read it all." Vicki Mellon, FBI Special Agen, Ret. "This book and story take you on a ride along that can only be seen and understood by personal experience until now. Enjoy the ride. I know I did." Stephen M. Daley, M.Ed, CEO/Founder radKIDS Personal Empowerment Safety Education Miami's vice cops, move over. There's a new sheriff in town, rather a feisty Florida Highway Patrol Trooper named Floy Turner, who juggles motherhood with fighting crime. With refreshing authenticity and transparency, Turner doesn't hold back as she tells her stranger-than-fiction, true-to-life anecdotes of what goes on behind the badge in drug-ridden 1980s Miami when cocaine was king and her town housed one of the major drug hubs in the country. Whether it's Turner's first night on patrol facing the barrel of a gun, the Bloodiest Day in FBI History, hilarious undercover assignments, conversing with infamous serial killer Aileen Wournos, personally and professionally experiencing the wrath of Hurricane Andrew, and fighting the Miami cocaine wars with the DEA, FBI, and FDLE, BEHIND HER MIAMI BADGE: UNDERCOVER, THE COCAINE WARS, AND LIFE IN THE FAST LANE is an action-packed page-turner that will bring tears to your eyes, either from laughing so hard at the humor or crying from the tragedies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Turner, Floy: - FLOY TURNER began her twenty-five-year career in law enforcement in Miami during the volatile cocaine-wars era as a trooper with the Florida Highway Patrol. After eleven years in this position, she served as a special agent with the elite Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) for the next fourteen years. She has been assigned to joint task forces at the international, federal, state, and local police levels, such as the 9/11 Counter Terrorism Task Force and the Belle Glade Prison Escape Task Force. These assignments have included complex investigations of serial homicides, kidnappings, missing children, child homicides, human-trafficking cases, and illegal narcotics smuggling cases. In 1993, she received the International Narcotic Enforcement Officer's Award and the Heroism Award, which led to her reenacting the apprehension of an armed bank robber on Real Stories of the Highway Patrol. As a FDLE Special Agent, Floy served as the Regional Crimes Against Children Coordinator in the Miami Region of Southeast Florida and was also a member of an Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the Law Enforcement Against Child Harm (LEACH) Task Force, the Miami-Dade County and Broward County Child Death Review Boards, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Human Trafficking Task Force, and Homeland Security Task Force. She assisted in the development of the human-trafficking curriculum for Basic Law Enforcement Training and Incentive Classes for Florida Police Officer's Standards and has been a guest speaker at many local, state, and federal training sessions, including the FBI's Women in Law Enforcement Conference in 2004. She was awarded the State Law Enforcement Officer of the Year at the Florida Missing Children's Day in 2004, for her criminal investigations that located and recovered multiple missing children who were reunited with their families. Prior to her retirement, Floy began working as a consultant for Fox Valley Technical College on the development and implementation of various training initiatives for the National AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program, U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. She was responsible for coordinating local AMBER Alerts with the FDLE Missing Children Information Clearinghouse and established a Child Abduction Response Team (CART) for the South Florida Region. After her retirement, Floy became the AMBER Alert Liaison for the Southern United States and Caribbean and created and coordinated the Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Certification program. She also continued to provide instruction in many AMBER Alert training courses until 2012. Floy was a member of the Northeast Florida Human Trafficking Task Force, and in 2010, the Organization of American States selected her to conduct human trafficking training at a conference for government officials in Belize. In 2011, she was recognized as Jacksonville's Justice Coalition's Citizen of the Year. She has also received authors' credits as a law enforcement consultant in two best-selling books.Clark, Sherrie: - SHERRIE CLARK is a former police officer with the NYPD, and she is a writer, book editor, and author of the award-winning book SMALL VOICES SILENCED. She's a coach and consultant for aspiring authors all across the country and speaks at conferences where she teaches audiences how to write their books. She cofounded Storehouse Publishing that takes authors and aspiring authors where they're at and helps them write and publish their books. Sherrie has written, bylined, and ghostwritten over 200 articles, stories, blog posts, press releases, website content, bios, and such, all of which have been published online or in print. Some of the publications for which she has written include the award-winning newspaper Victims' Advocate. She served as the Jacksonville Christianity & Social Issues Examiner for examiner.com, a niche she created but has since been used by other writers, and was a volunteer writer and editor for the international organization Stop Child Trafficking Now. Sherrie created, produced, and hosted the weekly online radio show God, Where Were You When? This show aired throughout Europe and as far as Japan and into Africa. She has a Masters of Arts in Clinical Christian Counseling and is a Licensed Clinical Christian Counselor with the NCCA. |