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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 reserve and jail classifications).
The bureau also reported separation figures for 2024. POST recorded 7,846 affidavits of separation, a total that includes officers who left their agency for another job as well as those who were terminated or retired. Of those separations, Wyler said 353 individual counts of serious-misconduct allegations were tied to separations and 276 individual officers were separated as a result of allegations of serious misconduct.
On enforcement actions, Wyler reported 2024 totals including 67 immediate temporary suspensions (ITSs) issued and 84 revocations. She said some ITSs were later removed because the department lost jurisdiction (for example, when a district attorney declined to prosecute) or because supplemental documentation led the executive director to reconsider the ITS. For 2025 through Feb. 10, POST had issued 12 ITSs, removed five, recorded four voluntary surrenders, and identified eight individuals deemed ineligible due to conviction.
Wyler and staff walked the advisory committee through additional breakdowns used by POST: cumulative totals by year; demographic breakdowns (gender, ethnicity, years of service, age); and education reporting limitations. Wyler noted POST’s education data are incomplete because applicants only submit their education at the time they apply for certificates and agencies may not resubmit later degrees.
The presentation did not request committee action; it was informational. POST staff said the statistics are offered at every POST meeting so commissioners and advisory members can track trends and workload.
