Membership Classes & Requirements

The association offers two membership classifications: Active Member and Associate Member.

Prospective members can apply online or can download an application and mail it to OSPOA Headquarters.

ACTIVE MEMBER ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

Active membership is open to persons, who properly apply for membership and are actively engaged full time in law enforcement as commissioned law enforcement officers and are certified as such by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training; persons who are serving as reserve law enforcement officers and are certified as such by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training; criminal prosecutors who are currently licensed by the State of Oklahoma Bar Association and/or the Oklahoma District Attorney’s Council; employees of law enforcement, criminal prosecutorial agencies or the criminal courts systems, to include, but not limited to those who are employed as investigators, secretaries, clerks, information officers, technicians, detention officers, communication officers, court reporters and other employees of law enforcement, criminal prosecutorial agencies or the criminal courts systems, who work in direct support of the law enforcement, criminal prosecutorial or criminal courts missions.

Eligibility for Active membership also applies to those who have retired from active service in law enforcement as commissioned law enforcement officers, reserve law enforcement officers; criminal prosecutors; employees of the criminal courts systems and those who worked in direct support of the law enforcement, criminal prosecutorial or criminal courts missions, to include, but not limited to those who are employed as investigators, secretary’s, clerks, information officers, technicians, detention officers, communication officers, court reporters

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

Associate Membership is open to persons who are not actively engaged in law enforcement but hold a commission without salary from a department, including an Active Member who drops out of law enforcement for reasons other than retirement, or any other person who is currently employed in or retired from any criminal justice related field, to include but not limited to; Licensed Polygraph Examiners, the criminal courts, court reporters, private safety and security professionals, along with any other individuals employed in direct support of any of these activities.