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California POST certification actions, statewide
California’s Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) publishes a list of peace officers whose certification has been acted on. This page counts that list for the whole state, one line per kind of action, using POST’s own names for them. Source: POST’s Peace Officer Certification Actions page, read on 2026-10-13 for the definitions and notices below.
This is a statewide count. It is deliberately not shown for any single agency. POST’s list is a list of named officers, and it carries this footnote, reproduced verbatim:
*"Last Employing Agency" is not necessarily the reporting agency or the agency where the serious misconduct occurred.
A count on a department’s page would therefore state something the publisher itself says its list does not show, so no department page here carries one and this page does not break the counts down by agency. This site also publishes no officer names.
Totals by action type
Each line counts officers whose current listed action is that type. The action types are separate statuses, and they are not added together on this page: there is no single “decertifications” figure here, because the lines do not mean the same thing. Of the action types below, only Revoked and Surrendered are terminal; POST defines a revocation as permanent and says a surrender “has the same effect of a revocation in that it cannot be reactivated.” No other line should be read as a final outcome.
| Action type (POST’s wording) | Officers |
|---|---|
| Revoked | 214 |
| Surrendered | 206 |
| Temporary Suspension | 154 |
| Ineligible | 137 |
| Withdrawn by Order of Executive Director | 6 |
| Conditional Certification | 4 |
| Suspension | 1 |
These figures are a floor, not a full count. 4 officers were left out because POST’s list returned them differently between identical requests, so their current action could not be stated reliably. 231 listed rows carried a struck-through, superseded action; only the current action is counted, and the struck-through one is not. The count is of POST’s list as it stood when it was loaded on 2026-10-09; it is not updated live.
POST’s own accuracy notice
POST publishes this notice on the same page as the list, reproduced verbatim:
POST is aware that there are issues affecting the accuracy of a peace officer's certification status as listed on this page. We are actively working to resolve this issue. Until this matter is resolved, questions regarding a listed peace officer's current status may be directed to the Certification Bureau at certificates@post.ca.gov.
Decertification Type Definitions
POST’s own definitions, reproduced verbatim from the section of that page with this heading. POST gives no definition under that heading for “Withdrawn by Order of Executive Director” or “Conditional Certification” as an entry of its own, and Police Census does not supply one.
Ineligible - An individual has been disqualified from eligibility to be a peace officer based on a disqualifying event as set forth in Government Code section 1029.
Revoked - The peace officer has been decertified and may not exercise the duties and powers of a peace officer. A revocation is permanent, and the certification shall not be reactivated.
Voluntary Surrender or Surrender - A person who holds a certificate issued by the commission, knowingly and willingly, returns the certificate to the commission, forfeiting all rights and privileges associated with that certificate. A “surrender” has the same effect of a revocation in that it cannot be reactivated.
Immediate Temporary Suspension or Temporary Suspension - The immediate suspension of a peace officer’s certification, pending the outcome of an investigation related to allegations of serious misconduct, pursuant to Penal Code section 13510.8(d). The “temporary suspension” may be issued under the following circumstances:
- When a peace officer is arrested or indicted for a felony or other crime listed in GC§ 1029,
- When a peace officer is discharged from a law enforcement agency for serious misconduct, or
- When a peace officer has separated from employment as a peace officer during a pending investigation into allegations of serious misconduct.
- The temporary suspension remains in effect until either a final determination is made by the Commission or the Executive Director withdraws the “temporary suspension” if a withdrawal is deemed to be warranted
Suspension - a disciplinary action of the Commission wherein a peace officer certification has been suspended for a specified period of time, not to exceed three years. A peace officer whose certification has been suspended may not be assigned duties which include the exercise of peace officer powers.
What this page does not do
It does not name any officer, attribute any action to any department, or add the action types into one number. The database behind it stores no officer name. For the full published list, with names, use POST’s own page.