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POST reports year-end 2024 certification totals and early 2025 trends
Summary
The Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) staff presented year-end 2024 certification and separation statistics and early 2025 figures, including counts of active courses, certificates issued, voluntary surrenders and immediate temporary suspensions.
Assistant Executive Director Jim Grokow and Certification Bureau Chief Michelle Wyler presented POST’s regular certification statistics at the March 4, 2025 POST advisory committee meeting.
Bureau Chief Michelle Wyler said the agency closed 2024 with 82,102 full-time peace officers and 5,923 active certified courses. “We issued 4,334 basic certificates, approved 07/1987 new appointments,” Wyler said, and POST issued 5,836 proofs of eligibility for classifications not eligible for a basic certificate (for example certain…
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