Sharlene Jones has served as a police officer for 12 years, and is currently a sexual assault detective and youth resource officer at a large police department in California. She works as the crisis negotiation team leader, and serves on the Internet Crimes Against Children task force. Her co-workers and the public call her "Corporal"; her children call her "Mom". The book she started writing for her three girls will be published in 2011, and will be released on Mother's Day.