Twenty-Six Recruits Graduate from AHC Law Enforcement Academy
DECEMBER 3, 2025--Twenty-six recruits graduated from Allan Hancock College’s Basic Law Enforcement Academy on Dec. 3 at the college’s Public Safety Training Complex in Lompoc.
The graduating recruits of Class #25-130 gathered with their friends and families to celebrate the completion of more than 871 training hours required to graduate from the academy and enter careers as peace officers. All of the recruits have already been hired by Central Coast law enforcement agencies.
“Today is the day you’ve been eagerly waiting for after more than a year,” Guadalupe Police Chief Michael Cash told the graduating recruits. “You have overcome every obstacle presented to you to get to this moment.”
During the academy, the recruits received training in community policing, search and seizure, firearms, ethics, investigation procedures, patrol techniques, arrest and control, physical training, CPR/First Aid, emergency vehicle operations, and other important skills.
“We started as many, but now we stand as one,” said academy graduate and former Cal Poly football player Jeremy Justice. “Football taught me how to overcome adversity. This academy showed me the kind of person I need to be moving forward.”
After graduating from the academy, Justice is one of two recruits who will go on to work for the Cal Poly Police Department. The other academy graduates will be employed by the Pismo Beach, Paso Robles, Guadalupe, Lompoc, Atascadero, Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara, and Santa Maria police departments, as well as the San Luis Obispo County and Santa Barbara County sheriff’s offices.
The Class #25-130 graduates include Mike Almaguer, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office; Edward Cabandong, Pismo Beach Police Department; Andres Calderon, Santa Barbara Police Department; Gavin Cohen, Santa Maria Police Department; Andrew Cordova, Lompoc Police Department, Ryan Dowd, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office; Camryn Durnin, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office; Tyler Gulovsen, Paso Robles Police Department; Jessie Hufstetler, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office; Victor Jacobo, Cal Poly Police Department; Jeremy Justice, Cal Poly Police Department; Nathan Lehr, Atascadero Police Department; Eduardo Leija, Santa Maria Police Department; Gavin Martinez, Pismo beach Police Department; Richard Osorio, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office; Estanislao Pulido, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office, Arik Pulsifer Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office; Nicholas Rabener, Paso Robles Police Department; Patricia Salemi-Massaro, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office; Elmer Sapiens, UC Santa Barbara Police Department; Chad Shusterich, Santa Maria Police Department; Jeremy Spendlove, Guadalupe Police Department; Adrian Velasquez, Santa Barbara Police Department; Victor Virgen, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office, Bayley Weber, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office and Mitchel Wooley, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office.
