[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 116 (Tuesday, September 26, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1595]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   TRIBUTE TO BENICIA POLICE CHIEF OTTO GIULIANI UPON HIS RETIREMENT

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                           HON. GEORGE MILLER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 26, 2000

  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to invite 
my colleagues to join me in congratulating Benicia Police Chief Otto 
William Giuliani on the occasion of his retirement after a very busy 
and successful twenty-eight years of service in law enforcement.
  Otto Giuliani began his law enforcement career with the Hayward 
Police Department, holding numerous positions in his 15-year career 
there. He was awarded the Hayward Police Department's highest honor, 
the Medal of Valor, for extraordinary duty on the night of November 29, 
1978, when he pried open the door, removed and carried an unconscious 
man from a wrecked vehicle stuck on the Western Pacific Railroad tracks 
just as the train struck the vehicle, almost sweeping Officer Giuliani 
and the victim back into the path of the train. For his action he was 
recognized by Kiwanis International as Police Officer of the year for 
1979 for the California, Nevada and Hawaii Districts, and received the 
Nathan Hale Award for Heroism.
  Otto was a member of the Hayward Kiwanis Club for fifteen years, with 
eleven years of perfect attendance, he served as president in 1981. He 
was charter president and two-time distinguished president of the 
Livermore Kiwanis Club in 1986 and 1987, with seven years of perfect 
attendance.
  He was a member of the Livermore Police Department for seven years, 
holding the positions of Captain of both the patrol and investigation 
divisions during separate and concurrent terms, and fulfilling the role 
of Acting Chief of Police.
  Otto is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigations National 
Academy (FBI/NA 153rd). He was Chief of Police for the Benicia Police 
department for eight years during which the department initiated 
Community Oriented Policing, began a formal School Resource Officer 
Program dedicating police officers to the campuses of Benicia High 
School and Benicia Middle School, expanded the DARE program to all 
fifth grade classes in each public and private school in the city; 
added three police officers to the department by means of federal and 
state grants; created a Citizen and Police Partnership Program; began 
the GREAT program to prevent gang activity from entering Benicia from 
other cities; conducted Citizen Police Academies; created a Parking 
Adjudication program which was the first of its kind in the nation for 
which the department received the Helen Putnam Award for Excellence 
(the League of California Cities' highest recognition); began a Citizen 
on Patrol program for which the department received national 
recognition from the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 
the form of the Webber Seavey Award for Excellence in Police Service to 
the Community, and raised the professional development of the 
department by successful completion of either the FBI National Academy 
or California POST Command College by all management personnel and 
enrollment or completion of the California POST Supervisory Leadership 
Institute by first line supervisors.
  Chief Giuliani was appointed City Manager/Chief of Police for the 
City of Benicia in December, 1994, and served in that capacity for six 
years, serving the longest career in the State of California in the 
dual role of City Manager/Chief of Police.
  Otto is a member of the Benicia Rotary Club and currently serves as 
President, is an ex-officio member of the Benicia Chamber of Commerce, 
and a member of the Board of Directors of the Benicia Police Athletic 
League (PAL).
  Chief Giuliani and his wife Jan have been married for twenty-five 
years and have a set of twins, Mario and Melissa, age 22. Otto is 
retiring from law enforcement after twenty-eight years of service, but 
he will continue to serve as the City Manager of Benicia.
  It is clear from his record of achievement that Chief Giuliani has 
never taken his positions of authority for granted and has excelled at 
his every endeavor. Many communities in our area have been enriched by 
his efforts. I wish Chief Giuliani a very happy, healthy and much 
deserved ``retirement,'' and I thank him for his many contributions to 
law enforcement.

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