Fredrick “Wayne” Klobe is a retired detective from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. His career spanned more than 23 years, the first 10 as a uniformed patrol officer in the 3rd Police District and the last 13 years as a Detective in the 3rd District Detective Bureau, the Area 1 Detective Bureau, and the South Patrol Division Detective Bureau. 

In his first book “We Took an Oath” he offers details about what it was like to ‘protect and to serve’. He opens up about some of his personal life experiences and the challenges of being a husband, father, and police officer all at the same time. Readers will find themselves immersed in the real life scenarios Klobe describes and asking themselves if they would respond the same way he and his fellow police officers did. You will come away with a better understanding of the pride police officers have in their jobs, but also the struggles they face, both personally and professionally, while trying to maintain that ‘thin blue line’.