Four days of exciting hands-on training. Real police equipment and vehicles. Over 30 certified instructors and top law enforcement and forensics experts.
The 2022 Writers' Police Academy offers a unique opportunity for attendees to participate in many of the same hands-on training classes - basic and advanced - taught to Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS, and Corrections personnel. These incredibly exciting cutting-edge sessions are typically reserved only for professionals. Until now.
Attendees of the 2022 Writers' Police Academy earn continuing education credit and a certificate from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.
2022 WPA Guest of Honor
Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Postand #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle, which has sold more than 8 million books worldwide. He is also the author of The Charles Jenkins espionage series, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and several stand-alone novels including The 7th Canon, Damage Control, and the literary novels, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Suspense Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year, for which Dugoni’s narration won an AudioFile Earphones Award and the critically acclaimed, The World Played Chess; as well as the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and television series. Dugoni is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction and a three-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He has also been a finalist for many other awards including the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award.
Robert Dugoni’s books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Special Guest Speakers
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Learn From the Experts
For writers of all genres - hands-on experience in police procedure, homicide investigation, firearms, emergency vehicle operations, tactical entries, arrest and booking, traffic stops, and more. Classes taught by renowned experts.
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Professional Grade Classes
From the firing range to SWAT entries, conducting traffic stops, and handcuffing bad guys, to studies of actual homicide cases, attendees receive hands-on training, and instruction, usually reserved only for professionals.
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Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and Writers' Police Academy
Together, they bring over 400 years of local, state, and federal law enforcement experience, from policing Native American lands to major cities, and all between.
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4 THRILLING Days of Instruction
Classes and workshops taught by top instructors. Imagine experiencing the same level of instruction as leading law enforcement officers and agents, and other first-responder professionals.