Citizen Complaint Form

The first step in filing a complaint against an officer is to contact the Internal Affairs/Professional Standards area of the involved police department/sheriff’s office.
After the agency has investigated your complaint, you may share your concerns with AZPOST.
AZPOST will review the information provided regarding your concerns, and if a potential AZPOST Rule violation is identified, may request further information from the involved agency.
Agencies are responsible for investigating officer misconduct. AZPOST will review sustained allegations of misconduct that violate AZPOST rules.
AZPOST focuses on the certification of individual officers. Complaints against a law enforcement agency should be directed to other entities.

First Name

Last Name

Email

Phone

Address

City/Town

State/Province

ZIP/Postal Code

Complaint Information

Date

Location

Officer Name(s)

Agency

Summary of Incident

AZPOST takes all citizen complaints against sworn peace officers seriously. It is our responsibility to ensure that an agency's complaint process and outcome appropriately address officer conduct. For this reason, you have the responsibility to ensure that your complaint is based on fact and that you have provided us with all of these facts to the best of your ability.

Pursuant to section 13-2907.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, “It is unlawful for a person to knowingly make to a law enforcement agency of either this state or a political subdivision of this state a false, fraudulent or unfounded report or statement or to knowingly misrepresent a fact for the purpose of interfering with the orderly operation of a law enforcement agency or misleading a peace officer.”