Detective Tom Houk - Trading Uniforms from Baseball to Police

Detective Tom Houk joined the Scottsdale Police Department in February 2000 after spending time playing and coaching professional baseball in the minor league. He spent 6 years in the minor leagues and, in 1990 led the Gulf Coast League with a .344 ba! Tom went from patrolling the baseball diamond to patrolling the streets of Scottsdale until February 2007 when he joined the Traffic Enforcement Section as a motorcycle officer. He worked closely with the Vehicular Crimes and Reconstruction Unit until he was transferred in March 2014. Detective Houk has completed over 900 hours of Vehicle Crash related training. This training includes specialized training in Pedestrian, Bicycle and Motorcycle Crash Investigations. Detective Houk has helped to investigate numerous crashes in his career. He has assisted with over 125 serious injury and fatal crashes and has been the Primary Investigator in over 60 of those crashes. Detective Houk is a Field Training Officer, General Instructor, Police RADAR instructor, Taser Instructor, and Taser Armorer. Detective Houk has assisted teaching Traffic Law and Accident Investigation classes at the Phoenix Regional Police Academy. He has also assisted with teaching At Scene, Traffic Crash Reconstruction I and Traffic Crash Reconstruction II at Arizona Post.