In Search of Truth and Honor: Reflections of an undercover Journey through the dark side of the badge Tapa blanda - 2009

Joanne Takasato is a third generation Asian American whose grandparents migrated from Okinawa to Hawaii in the early 1900's. She retired as a detective from the Honolulu Police Department in 2006 and continues a career in the investigative field in the private sector. She was the first female officer to earn the Hawaii State Law Enforcement Officers Outstanding Officer Award and the first female to earn the Veterans of Foreign Wars Loyalty Award. Over the course of her twenty-seven years of service, she received ten awards and eighty-two commendations for exemplary performance of duties. In Search of Truth and Honor is a journal that fulfills her promise to validate the efforts and personal sacrifices of undercover law officers and federal agents, past and present, all who have walked the same path, shared the same difficulties, and crossed the same thresholds into unknown confrontations in an undercover assignment.