After retiring from the United States Navy, Tom Brown joined the Corpus Christi Police Department in 2005 in the Volunteer in Police Service (VIPS) program. Then, after several years, he accepted the position as the VIPS program Coordinator where he evaluated department personnel needs then recruited and expanded the number and roles for volunteers. The volunteers filled voids in many divisions, alleviating some of the added burden many officers were tasked with. The program proved successful and some of the volunteers later became employees or officers. 

Accepting any task, Tom also served with the Corpus Christi Police Foundation, Citizens Police Academy, as an Advisor to the John W. Sartain Law Enforcement Explorer Post #133, Disabled Parking Patrol program coordinator, coordinated the annual Patriot Run, assisted the interim, and ultimately full-time Program Manager for Animal Care Services with administration, purchasing and budget, human resource management, and became a state certified Animal Control Officer. 

Tom holds an Associate of Science degree in Management, a Bachelor of Science degree in Management, Computer Information Systems, both from Park University, and a Master of Criminal Justice degree from Boston University. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Cellebrite Certified Mobile Examiner and maintains various other qualifications from the United States Secret Service’s National Computer Forensics Institute where he has also served as a course proctor. 

Tom currently serves as a Digital Media Forensic Examiner in the Organized Crime Unit/Internet Crimes Against Children (OCU/ICAC) division/task force. His duties include assisting on search warrants, examining digital/electronic devices for evidence related to crimes against children and presenting that evidence for prosecution of the suspected persons. Tom also provides digital investigative assistance to CCPD’s Criminal Investigations Division (CID), Texas DPS CID and our federal agency partners at HSI, FBI, USSS, and NCIS. 

An avid motorcyclist, Tom is the president of a local Law Enforcement motorcycle organization. He also owns and operates a local motorcycle training company where he shares his passion for safe motorcycling through rider instruction and licensing on 2 and 3-wheel motorcycles from the basic to professional level.