Welcome to the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

If you represent an Arizona Law Enforcement Agency that has vacant Certified Positions it would like to fill with Arizona POST Certified Peace Officers that may lose their positions due to reductions in force at their agency, Arizona POST would like to pass that information along to the Arizona Law Enforcement Community on our Displaced Officer Information Page Please e-mail our Webmaster with details of your available positions.

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The Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board was created by an act of the 28th Arizona legislature on July 1, 1968 as the Arizona Law Enforcement Officer Advisory Council. The name was officially changed to its present form on July 17, 1994.

 

The Board was originally created to address the need for uniform peace officer selection, recruitment, retention and training standards, and to provide curriculum and standards for all certified law enforcement training facilities. The Board was also vested with the responsibility of administering the Peace Officer Training Fund.

 

In 1984, the legislature charged the Board with the added responsibilities of approving a state correctional officer training curriculum and establishing minimum standards for state correctional officers. Currently the Board provides services to approximately 170 law enforcement agencies encompassing over 16,000 sworn peace officers, 9,000 correctional service officers, and 16 academies.

 

The mission of the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board is to foster public trust and confidence by establishing and maintaining standards of integrity, competence, and professionalism for Arizona peace officers and correctional officers.

 

Our vision is to produce and maintain the most professional peace officers in America.

 

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updated 15:10 hrs (MST), March 16, 2010