|
 Sergeant Robert J. Sherman
Burleson Police Department
bobsherman@tahn.org or
rsherman@texaspolicecentral.com
Sergeant Sherman’s career as a police officer began in 1981 when he joined the United States Air Force as a Law Enforcement Specialist. After serving two years at Hahn Air Base in Germany, he returned to the United States and was stationed at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas.
Bob’s interest in crisis negotiations began when he became a volunteer counselor at a Fort Worth suicide hotline in 1985. In an effort to learn more, Bob sought out additional training and attended a basic hostage negotiation course in 1986. In early 1989 he learned of a fledgling organization, the Texas Association of Hostage Negotiators (TAHN), which was being formed to help negotiators network and continue training in the field of hostage negotiations. At one of the early meeting, Bob’s design for an association logo was approved by the membership and became the first official logo of TAHN.
An overseas assignment to Korea and then another assignment to south Florida forced him to leave TAHN for several years. After 11 years of military law enforcement, Bob was honorably discharged and returned to Texas. It was here that he attended the Tarrant County Junior College, Criminal Justice Training Center and graduated as the Valedictorian and Distinguished Recruit of Class 54B in December 1992. Shortly after graduation, he began work as a patrol officer for the City of Burleson. Bob was promoted to the rank of Corporal in October 1996 and then to Sergeant in January 1999. He is currently the senior sergeant at the Burleson Police Department and is serving as a third watch patrol supervisor.
Sergeant Sherman holds a Master TCLEOSE Peace Officer's certificate and is Field Training Sergeant, TCLEOSE Instructor, Standardized Field Sobriety Test Practitioner, and an Intoxilyzer Operator. He is also the team leader for the Burleson Police Department's crisis negotiations team.
In January 1997, Bob was elected to the association’s Board of Directors and began serving as the Vice President of Public Relations. Some of Bob’s responsibilities as the VP of Public Relations have been to design and maintain the association’s web site, design the annual conference logo, produce the annual conference training CD and maintain a history of the organization. In 2004, he was selected as the TAHN Member of the Year for his contributions to the association. In 2006, his team was selected as the Team of the Year for successfully negotiating an incident involving an armed suspect holding a young child hostage.
Bob is married and has two girls. In his "spare" time, he enjoys computers, computer graphics, web page design and digital photography. He also enjoys oil painting, camping, boating, and collecting antique pocket knives. If theses things didn’t shout out “geek” to you, knowing he was a diehard Battlestar Galactica fan should. With his pocket protector firmly in place and masking tape holding his glasses together, he invites you to contact him at the E-mail addresses listed above.
|
