Ingrid P. Dean - True Police Stories of the Strange & Unexplained

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True Police Stories of the Strange & Unexplained 2011 by Ingrid P. Dean.

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I have been an intuitive all my life, but the majority of my working career has been spent in the fields of law and corrections. After earning a bachelors degree in both psychology and sociology, I worked for fourteen years as a felony probation officer. This job required a great deal of contact with police and other corrections workers. During that time, I also did post-graduate work in criminal justice studies and ultimately earned a Doctorate in Law. I was in the private practice of law for many years prior to leaving it to pursue my writing and speaking career full time.

Because of my unique mix of intuitive ability and legal and criminal justice training and expertise, I was asked to train police officers to use their own intuitive abilities in their work. For many years, I was honored to share this training with a number of different police departments. Police officers are, while highly intuitive, also very guarded about sharing personal stories and experiences. As a matter of fact, I can think of no other group of people who are less likely to openly discuss anything that might be labeled paranormal or metaphysical.

On the whole, police and corrections officers have more than their share of intuitive ability. As a matter of fact, it is a necessary tool that an officer needs to be safe and successful. Among themselves, many officers call this skill their blue sense. It is the ability to just know things without quite understanding why. It is the sense they have in their guts, or how they smell out danger. However, the officers I worked with and trained were very reluctant to claim this ability. When I would ask for examples of intuitive instances in their careers, I was usually answered by silence. More often, an individual would privately come up to me after a training session or during a break to share a story of intuitive insight.

That is why I was so impressed when I read Ingrid Deans book, True Police Stories of the Strange & Unexplained . Because she, herself, is a detective sergeant, she was able to elicit stories from her fellow officers about amazing occurrences of psychic ability, Divine intervention, ghostly apparitions, and much more. These stories are even more impressive when you consider who is telling them.

Of the thousands of people I have trained to master their intuition, police officers are, in many ways, the most difficult subjects. This is not because they do not have ability. This is because they are very selective about who they trust and careful to only state facts. Police officers are trained to write highly factual reports. They are not encouraged to speculate or give opinions, and they certainly are not allowed to include flights of fancy or unsubstantiated information.

As you read these stories, you will see how their training is no w used in their accounts of metaphysical and intuitive events. Because I know police officers so well, I chuckled a bit at the details included in their stories. Their training and experience shows as they recount names, times, and other information as factually as they recite the most amazing of unexplainable phenomena.

This collection of stories is fascinating and intriguing, and also deeply touching. The police heart shines through the pages in the kindness and concern shown by these hard working and honest officers. I only wish that this book had been available for me to use as a manual when I was doing my trainings. Despite my education, degrees, and correctional experience, I was never completely accepted as one of them. This is perhaps the most impressive thing about True Police Stories of the Strange & Unexplained . Only another police officer would ever have been trusted enough to be given these accounts. Thanks to the courage of the officers who shared these stories, we have ample proof that there are many things beyond what we can see with our physical eyes and experience with our five senses.

Police officers deal in life and death situations. They are, perhaps, the most likely people to see many unusual and bizarre happenings. For them to step forward and share them with us is a gift. I am very grateful to Ingrid Dean for collecting these accounts and I hope she continues to receive many more. These stories are the best proof I have seen of intuitive knowledge and paranormal happenings.

Kathryn Harwig
Author and Intuitive Master

A human being is part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the resta kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal decisions and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

When I first entered into police work, I thought the law enforcement profession was all about service, caring, and making a difference in world. On one level, it certainly is. After over twenty years in the field, however, Ive learned that police work is much more. It is really an avenue to see oneself through other people. It is an opportunity to address ones deeply held convictions about life and death and the make up of the world.