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Welcome to Sarasota Police Officers Association
Sarasota Police Officers Association, I.U.P.A. Local 6045, would like to welcome you to our website. The site is designed to provide a communications link between the Union and its members. It also provides information for the citizens we serve. Anything done to one, affects all of us. Call a member of the Board and let us know or send an email from your personal, not your work computer.
I.U.P.A./SPD Local 6045 is comprised of sworn law enforcement professionals dedicated to protect and serve the City of Sarasota residents and its visitors year round. Our commitment and loyalty to our community is unwavering. We are dedicated to continually providing the highest level of service with integrity and partnering with our community to maintain and enhance our quality of life. I.U.P.A. Local 6045 is proud to be a part of an agency that continually focuses on community policing and is fully accredited by the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation.
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Collective Bargaining Agreement for Ratification
FOR THE PERIOD OF 10/1/2022 - 9/30/2025
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Police News
- After wave of departures from Ga. PD, chief resigns, alleging retaliation, harassmenton October 7, 2026 at 4:49 pm
Casey Chastain wrote that he was "insulted, lied to, lied about and harassed" by the city manager; a resigning sergeant cited "micromanagement" and a "witch hunt"
- Wash. man uses handcuffs to hot-wire cruiser window, escape from backseaton October 7, 2026 at 4:29 pm
The suspect moved his cuffed hands to the front and pried the Thurston County cruiser's door panel off; he used the cuffs to short out the window switch, which rolled the window down
- Wash. man uses handcuffs to hot-wire cruiser window, escape from backseaton October 7, 2026 at 4:29 pm
The suspect moved his cuffed hands to the front and pried the Thurston County cruiser's door panel off; he used the cuffs to short out the window switch, which rolled the window down
- 'Somebody's gonna die tonight': Man fires round at Idaho officers before fatal OISon October 7, 2026 at 3:59 pm
"I'm going to come up there ... and I'm going to shoot you," the man can be heard telling Bonneville County Sheriff's deputies
- 'Somebody's gonna die tonight': Man fires round at Idaho officers before fatal OISon October 7, 2026 at 3:59 pm
"I'm going to come up there ... and I'm going to shoot you," the man can be heard telling Bonneville County Sheriff's deputies
- SCOTUS declines to hear ex-Okla. officer's appeal, leaving her without qualified immunity in 2016 OIS suiton October 7, 2026 at 1:57 pm
Former Tulsa Police officer Betty Shelby was acquitted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher, but faces a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by his family
- SCOTUS declines to hear ex-Okla. officer's appeal, leaving her without qualified immunity in 2016 OIS suiton October 7, 2026 at 1:57 pm
Former Tulsa Police officer Betty Shelby was acquitted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher, but faces a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by his family
- NYPD data shows record-low numbers of shooting victims in first 9 months of 2026on October 6, 2026 at 10:02 pm
“These historic results continue to be driven by our precision policing strategy ... putting officers exactly where and when the data tells us they are needed most," Commissioner Jessica Tisch said
