{"id":2369,"date":"2022-03-05T23:42:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T05:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/?page_id=2279"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:43:05","slug":"paul-lehmann","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/paul-lehmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Lehmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l0eu7jhn-987323009c22e7f2d49ec8d33550dc8d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4629 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Paul-Lehman-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"250\" \/>Assistant Chief Deputy, Support Services Bureau: Paul Lehmann <\/strong>oversees the Support Services Bureau. He started his career with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice before joining the Dallas Sheriff\u2019s Office in 1992. He has worked assignments at the West Tower, North Tower, Intake, Release, and the now-closed Government Center and Old Jail. He has also served assignments in Patrol, Traffic, Internal Affairs, and Training, and served as the Sheriff&#8217;s Office Rangemaster for more than a decade. During his time as a Deputy and Sergeant in General Services, he was one of the Department\u2019s leaders in DWI enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Lehmann\u2019s career path has led to a variety of certifications. He has been certified or licensed as a Drug Evaluation and Classification Expert, Breath Test Operator, Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Instructor, LIDAR Instructor, OC Instructor, Less-Lethal Instructor, Chemical Agent Instructor, and Forensic Hypnotist. He holds certifications from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement as an Instructor, Firearms Instructor, Patrol Rifle Instructor, and Sub-Machinegun Instructor. He has completed training courses in an eclectic range of topics, including Criminal Profiling, Hostage Negotiation, and Homicide Investigation. He has held or holds factory armorer courses for roughly two dozen weapon platforms. He is a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors and the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association.<\/p>\n<p>He is a 2017 graduate of the Center for American and International Law\u2019s School of Executive Leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Lehmann also holds an FAA commercial airman\u2019s certificate and has experience flying as a Captain for an FAA Part 135 commercial air carrier. He attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed Assistant Chief Deputy by Sheriff Marian Brown in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2369","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4675,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369\/revisions\/4675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}