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Law Enforcement Experience

Tom Selman has 10 years of paid professional law enforcement experience as a former full time employee of the Angelina County Sheriff's Department, the Diboll Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety. Tom held an Advanced Certificate from TCLEOSE when he left law enforcement. Click the blue buttons on the left of the page for details of Tom's experience while he worked for the law enforcement agencies listed.

Tom is a graduate of the East Texas Police Academy of Kilgore and was Valedictorian of his class in the Texas Department of Public Safety Academy in Austin. Tom earned a degree in Law Enforcement from Angelina College and also attended specialized training courses throughout his law enforcement career earning almost 2000 training hours credit. Some of those sessions include:

Traffic Accident Reconstruction School by Dallas Police Department

DPS Advanced Accident Reconstruction School

Certified as Breathalyzer and Intoxilyzer Operator while a Trooper

Advanced Driver Training

Monthly DPS District Riot Squad Training

DPS TLE Investigator School

DPS Drug Interdiction Program Instructor School

DPS Highway Patrol In-Service Training every 2 years

Police Communications Operator training

Training by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission

Confrontation Management Training at Texas A & M

Certified Radar Operator

Trained in First Aid and as a First Responder

Recent Holiday Anti-DWI Program promoted by the Texas Department of Transportation (Click on Santa and see some DWI results)

(L-R) Rocky Thigpen, Judge Harold Crager, J.P. Pct #5, Angelina County-retired, Texas Ranger Captain Barry Caver of Midland and Tom Selman at DPS HQ in Austin at Caver's promotional ceremony to Captain, Texas Rangers. Caver, formerly of Lufkin, was Selman's partner on the Highway Patrol.