Thomas Sommerville was hired by the Detroit Police Department in September of 1973 at the age of twenty-one. He chose to work the streets as a patrol officer his entire career and was one of the highest decorated officers in the department. In 2004, he began working at the Marana Police Department (a northwest suburb of Tucson, Arizona) and completed fifteen years there as a certified crime scene specialist before retiring in August 2019. He enjoys riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle, playing ice hockey, painting, photography, reading, writing, playing his tenor sax and keyboards, going to the movies, traveling with his wife, pulling pranks, and making people laugh.
