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Verifying Instructor Certification
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 6:21 pm
by atxgun
I was wondering if there was anywhere to get a list of licensed instructors or verify if someone offering a class is a certified? I checked DPS website, maybe I just fail but didn't see anything.
Re: Verifying Instructor Certification
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 6:51 pm
by WildBill
atxgun wrote:I was wondering if there was anywhere to get a list of licensed instructors or verify if someone offering a class is a certified? I checked DPS website, maybe I just fail but didn't see anything.
There used to be a link on the DPS site, but I can't find it.
Re: Verifying Instructor Certification
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:01 pm
by Charles L. Cotton
The instructor list is voluntary. You can ask to see the instructor's certificate.
Chas.
Re: Verifying Instructor Certification
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:20 pm
by Happily Ever After
atxgun wrote:I was wondering if there was anywhere to get a list of licensed instructors or verify if someone offering a class is a certified? I checked DPS website, maybe I just fail but didn't see anything.
Here's the list.
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/RSD/CHL/Li ... InList.pdf
Re: Verifying Instructor Certification
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:27 pm
by sjfcontrol
Happily Ever After wrote:atxgun wrote:I was wondering if there was anywhere to get a list of licensed instructors or verify if someone offering a class is a certified? I checked DPS website, maybe I just fail but didn't see anything.
Here's the list.
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/RSD/CHL/Li ... InList.pdf
As mentioned above, that is an "opt-in" list. Just because a person is not on that list does not mean he's not an instructor.
Re: Verifying Instructor Certification
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:44 pm
by atxgun
Thanks guys! Found what I needed.
Re: Verifying Instructor Certification
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:54 am
by gilligan
I haves friend who told me she was going to get her CHL about 6 months ago. I go and visit her and she shows me her certificate of completion. I congratulate her and ask her a couple of simple questions related to where you can carry or can't. Every question was answered wrong. I questioned her further and she tells me that she took no test, is paying the class in installments, and has only been to one 1 hour class so far. I contacted DPS to try and confirm he is an instructor and was told that was confidential and I could email the name and address of said "instructor" and they would "check it out". That's the last I heard about it. I told my friend to not go back to him.
Re: Verifying Instructor Certification
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:38 pm
by recaffeination
Thanks for the link to the list. It's a good resource to help people find an instructor who wants to be found.
Re: Verifying Instructor Certification
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 4:24 pm
by punkndisorderly
Sounds fishy. If this guy gave here the certificate and she is paying by installment, what incentive does she have to pay?
She already has the certificate.
And she should probably report the guy herself. If he's doing this, he's likely to get caught. Hasn't the DPS given students problems for fraudulently getting a certificate but not meeting the requirements and not reporting it?
Re: Verifying Instructor Certification
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:50 pm
by WildBill
punkndisorderly wrote:Sounds fishy. If this guy gave here the certificate and she is paying by installment, what incentive does she have to pay?
She already has the certificate.
And she should probably report the guy herself. If he's doing this, he's likely to get caught. Hasn't the DPS given students problems for fraudulently getting a certificate but not meeting the requirements and not reporting it?
This does sound "fishy".