Roseville Police Officers Association

10/07/2026

National Coffee with a Cop Day started with a simple problem. Most people only ever met the police on the worst day of their week.

In 2011, Chief Keith Kauffman and John Dixon of the Hawthorne Police Department in California tried something different. They set up at a local coffee shop, with no agenda and no speeches, and let residents walk up and ask whatever they wanted. By 2016 the idea had spread to all 50 states.

It is now held on the first Wednesday of October every year, which this year is October 7.

The format has not changed, because it does not need to. A table, a cup of coffee, and time to talk about the things that never come up during a call. Parking. School traffic. Why the sirens were out on Tuesday night.

Members of this association know the most useful conversations rarely happen in an emergency.

10/06/2026

Great Job Tanner!!! Tanner went out and represented the RPOA in style....and walked away healthy 😁.

10/03/2026

RPOA member Tanner Smith will be competing tonight in the Sac Sheriff Rodeo!!!! Tanner grew up riding bulls and decided to bring it back for the Rodeo tonight. Let's gooooo Tanner!

Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office

09/29/2026

The Roseville Police Officers Association offers its deepest condolences to the family and friends of CHP Officer Brian Liles. The California Highway Patrol announced the line-of-duty death of Officer Brian Liles of the Visalia Area.

On September 28, 2026, at approximately 5:11 p.m., CHP Motorcycle Officer Liles was involved in an on-duty traffic crash on State Route 99, just north of State Route 190 in Tipton. He sustained critical injuries and, despite lifesaving efforts, succumbed to his injuries at the scene.

Officer Liles, 44, served the people of California for more than 16 years. After graduating from the CHP Academy in 2010, he was assigned to the San Jose Area and later served in the Hayward and Fresno Areas before transferring to the Visalia Area in 2019.

Officer Liles is survived by his wife, two children, his parents, and two sisters.

09/27/2026

In 1917, an Army captain named Robert Queisser designed a small flag for a window.

He had two sons serving overseas. The flag he patented carried a blue star for each family member in service, and families across the country began hanging them where neighbors could see. It was a quiet way of saying that someone from this house is out there.

If that person did not come home, the family sewed a gold star over the blue one.

That is where the term comes from. Not a medal. Not a designation handed down by an institution. A mother with a needle, covering a blue star, in a window on an ordinary street. In 1918 the practice was formalized when the Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense asked President Wilson to approve a gold star for mothers who had lost a child in the war, and he did.

Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day is observed on the last Sunday in September, this year on the 27th.

Members of this association know Gold Star families in the communities we serve. Most of them will not say so out loud.

If you know one, they do not need a speech. They need to know their person is still remembered by name. Share this post in their honor.

09/21/2026

On Sunday morning September 20th, Governor Newsome vetoed AB 1383 which would have given meaningful pension reform for public safety members.

The Roseville Police Officers Association joins public safety labor groups across the state in our deep disappointment in Governor Newsom and his decision to veto AB 1383.

The legislation had overwhelming bipartisan support in both the Assembly and the Senate, reflecting a clear recognition of the physical and mental toll a career in public safety takes.

The veto of AB 1383 is disappointing, but our commitment to retirement security remains firm. Roseville peace officers deserve retirement policies that reflect the realities of their service.

Our members will continue to answer the call for our community, risking our lives, spending time away from our families, and making the sacrifices this profession demands. We will continue to advocate for the physical health and mental well-being of our members and for our families. We will continue working with our members, legislative allies and labor partners to advocate for meaningful PEPRA reform. Our members’ futures are worth fighting for.

09/18/2026

Last year, 231 missing Americans came home.

That is the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's fiscal year 2025 count. 165 from World War II, 58 from Korea, 8 from Vietnam. It was a record, and the first time since 2019 the agency exceeded the 200 identifications Congress asks of it.

It also barely moved the number. More than 80,000 Americans are still unaccounted for from past conflicts. Roughly 38,000 of them are assessed as recoverable. Most of the rest were lost at sea.

Those two facts sit together uncomfortably, and they should. The work is painstaking, it is slow, and it is still producing results eighty years after the fact. Somewhere last year, 231 families got a phone call they had stopped expecting.

Today is National POW/MIA Recognition Day, observed every year on the third Friday in September by presidential proclamation.

The flag says You Are Not Forgotten. The 231 is the proof.

Share this post in their honor.

09/18/2026

The law that created the United States Air Force was signed in the air.

On July 26, 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 aboard his presidential aircraft, a Douglas VC-54C nicknamed the Sacred Cow. It was the first plane ever built specifically to fly a president. The act took effect on September 18, 1947, and the Air Force became a separate branch of the armed forces.

That same day, Stuart Symington was sworn in as its first Secretary. Carl Spaatz became its first Chief of Staff. A service built entirely around flight got its founding signature at altitude, which is either a coincidence or the best one in American military history.

Seventy nine years later the Sacred Cow is preserved at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, and the motto has not changed.

Several members of this association served in that uniform before they served this community.

Tag an Airman, past or present, who should see this today.

Aim High. Fly, Fight, Win.

09/17/2026

09/11/2026

Remember 9/11/2001 - Your RPOA members were up early, alongside Roseville Firefighters IAFF L1592, for a stair climb workout - honoring the 25th Anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. The workout, 110 stair climbs (stories of the World Trade Center), and 415 pushups (For the 343 firefighters and 72 police officers killed), honors the first responders who perished is the attacks. If you have a moment today, take a look at the American Flags at the Vernon Street Town Square. You’ll notice thousands of them; one for each victim of the terrorist attacks from 25 years ago today.