Fire Service Law

About the Book

FIRE SERVICE LAW serves as a critical aid for the emergency worker, whose job intersects almost daily with issues of legal liability. The book provides a basic introduction and then fuller analysis of Constitutional Rights, Negligence, Criminal Law and Procedure, Employment and Administrative Law, also outlining current federal and state law and illustrative court cases.

About the Author

IVILLL4M J. WILKINSON is retired from many years of public service. A lifelong Chicagoan, he has been a teacher in its inner city schools, a Chicago Police Officer, and after a full career of 32 years of firefighting, retired in late 2001 as a Battalion Chief from one of the busiest battalions in the city of Chicago. He has served as a trustee on the Firemen’s Pension Board for nine of those years As an Adjunct Professor for Southern Illinois University and Northwestern University; he continues to teach young firefighters and officers regarding the issues of management of Fire Service Operations and legal liability. He includes within his teaching some very practical skills in avoidance of fatal operational mistakes. He serves as an arbitrator for the Cook County Municipal Court, and maintains a limited practice of law to spend maximum time with his grandchildren.