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Honoring our Retirees
A yearly Law Enforcement Officers Safety Acts (LEOSA) qualification for honorably retired Salinas police officers can be scheduled by contacting our administrative secretaries.
In addition, the Salinas Police Department Rangemasters have hosted an annual SPD Retiree BBQ since 2019. The event is a collaboration with the Salinas Police Officer Association volunteer officers, and professional staff. The BBQ involves considerable logistics including purchasing supplies, cooking, serving food, and qualifying all the participants with their weapons.
The Annual SPD BBQ has been attended by former officers who travel from throughout California and from as far away as Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington state. The most seasoned officer in attendance retired more than 25 years ago.Â
Throwing a BBQ may seem like just a nice thing to do, but it is so much more. For the retirees, it is an opportunity to see old friends, reminisce, and to feel they are still part of the SPD family (which they are!). It is a recognition that their life’s work mattered, is appreciated, and that there is continuity between our past and our future in the Salinas Police Department of today.
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Salinas PD LEOSA Qualification Information
A yearly LEOSA qualification for honorably Retired Salinas Police Officers can be scheduled by emailing the Administrative Secretaries, Stephanie Morales-Bravo or Martha Guizar.Â
Retiree qualifications can be conducted on any open range day after being coordinated with either Stephanie or Martha. Please do not just show up to the range without scheduling.
A yearly Retiree BBQ is held at the Salinas Police Department located at 312 E. Alisal Street usually during July or August. We invite all retired Salinas Police Officers to attend this event. As part of this event, there will be Rangemasters on hand to qualify retired Officers and to process their LEOSA cards. Please contact Sergeant Heckman or Sergeant Murphy for information regarding this event.
Those retirees who are unable to attend either the Retiree BBQ and Qualification or an Open Range Day due to living out of county may download the Salinas PD LEOSA Qualification Course and the Salinas PD Retiree Qualification forms.Â
Take these forms to any Local, State, or Federal Law Enforcement Agency who is willing to qualify you using our standards. We do not recognize private firearms instructors, military or security contractors, only Local, State, or Federal Law Enforcement Agencies can qualify retirees. Once you are qualified have the Rangemaster who qualified you sign the SPD Retiree Qualification Form and indicate the Agency which conducted the qualification. The form must include a valid mailing address and telephone contact number for the retiree requesting the LEOSA card. We cannot validate your qualification and issue you a LEOSA card without this information. Once the form is completed the certifying agency or the retiree must scan the signed copy of the SPD Retiree Qualification Form and email it to Stephanie and Martha.Â
Upon receiving the scanned form Salinas range staff will verify the information is accurate this process may include contacting the qualifying agency for verification.Â
The retiree will receive his or her LEOSA Card in the mail approximately 2 weeks after we receive the properly completed forms.
If you need to speak directly to a member of the Range Staff, contact Sergeant Cameron Murphy by email or call 831-758-7280.
If you need to speak directly to Stephanie Morales-Bravo or Martha Guizar please call 831-758-7286.