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Oceanside cop pens "Images of OPD" By Tom Morrow - 06/22/2006 North County Times Oceanside Police Department's Matthew J. Lyons, a corporal in field operations, as well as a former Marine criminal investigator at Camp Pendleton, has just inked a book, "Images of America: Oceanside Police Department," (Arcadia Publishing, 2006, $19.95). Although this new 128-page tome hasn't been released yet, it's expected to be on bookshelves by the end of this month. "The Oceanside Police Department has provided a century of service to our community," says Matt. The city has grown from a small seaside resort into a city of more than 170,000 people." In his research, Matt traced the city's law enforcement history from the incorporation in 1888 until present. "City marshals patrolled Oceanside from 1888 to 1906," says Matt. "The first (Oceanside) lawman was former Texas Ranger Charlie Wilson, who also was the first officer to be killed in the line of duty." The images in this remarkable photographic collection chronicle the OPDís past, covering the administrations of city marshal J. Keno Wilson (Charlie Wilsonís brother), police chiefs Charles Goss, Ward Ratcliff, and others. Showcased in Matt's book are images from the archives of the Oceanside Police Department and the collection of Delores Davis Sloan, the daughter of the late Capt. Harold B. Davis, Oceansideís top cop for three decades. Matt expects to do book signings sometime later this summer. Oceanside officer's picture book tells department's story By Cecil F. Scaglione - 07/23/2006 North County Times More Info on This Book: Oceanside Police Department
"This book wasn't about me," said the 44-year-old ex-Marine who joined the force in 2000. "It's about the people and the history of this department." He gives a lot of the credit for the achievement to contributions by the family of the late Capt. Harold B. Davis, who amassed much of the department's mementos and memorabilia during his 25 years on the force before retiring in 1955. The result is a quick pick-me-up picture book of 128 pages that is a photographic history of the department from the 1880s, when marshals monitored the streets, to its current strength of 195 sworn personnel. Lyons said he wanted to do this book almost immediately after joining the force. He'd spent 22 years in the military, where he gravitated toward law enforcement, after growing up in Portland, Maine. He said when he enrolled in the police academy as part of his transition from the Marines to municipal service, "I became interested about what I found in Oceanside." He began what turned out to be five years of research. He and his wife, Cynthia, started collecting old photographs and memoirs from retired police officers and whatever other sources emerged. "I don't want to take full credit for this book because so many people came before me. I just sort of took the ball into the end zone." In fact, Lyons is not making, or rather, taking, any money from the sale of this book, which has a cover price of $19.99. "All the royalties are donated to the (Washington, D.C.-based) National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund," he said. His decision to produce a photographic rather than prose history of the OPD seemed rather simple. "It might be nice to write a book, but history can be dry to some people. This way, you can pick it up every once in a while and look through it." Now he's thinking of doing a similar book about the police department in his New England home town, which was patrolled by his Irish immigrant grandfather. He's keeping in mind one thing he learned from producing this book: "I would have recruited more people to help." He and his wife "are kind of bouncing around the idea of a book about law-enforcement issues, something along the lines of historic fiction about true-to-life characters who lived in Oceanside ... It could be a children's book so a young lad or lassie could learn about the community." He hasn't been able to track the movement of his first book too actively because he's recovering from back surgery resulting from a job-related incident, "but I understand it's selling pretty good." The book is available at Barnes and Noble book stores. Lyons has scheduled his first book-signing in the Oceanside outlet on Vista Way Sept. 2. A second is planned Sept. 9 in the Temecula store. Buy It Now: Oceanside Police Department $19.99 |
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