[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 8 (Thursday, January 20, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E89]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   A TRIBUTE TO CHIEF SAM L. SPIEGEL IN RECOGNITION OF HIS YEARS OF 
                     SERVICE TO FOLSOM, CALIFORNIA

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                         HON. DANIEL E. LUNGREN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, January 20, 2011

  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to 
recognize and honor my friend, Chief Sam L. Spiegel, for the years of 
service he has spent as chief of police and director of Emergency 
Services for the city of Folsom, California. Altogether, Chief Spiegel 
has a 39 year tenure in law enforcement in California.
  Chief Spiegel holds a Master Degree in Management, a Bachelor Degree 
in Criminal Justice, his State teaching credential, and is a graduate 
of the P.O.S.T. Command College and the FBI National Academy. Sam began 
his law enforcement career as a police cadet with the Corona Police 
Department in November of 1971. He was trained as a schools cadet and 
dispatcher before becoming a reserve police officer in June of 1974. He 
was hired as a deputy sheriff with the Riverside County Sheriffs 
Department in December of 1974 and assigned to Lake Elsinore Station 
Patrol. In January of 1976, he returned to Corona Police Department as 
a reserve officer and was hired as a full time police officer in 
December 1976. During his tenure with Corona PD he was assigned as a 
traffic officer, commercial enforcement officer, detective, and was 
promoted to sergeant in 1983 and lieutenant in 1985. In both of these 
ranks, he held assignments in patrol, traffic, investigations, and 
administration. In April 1996 he was promoted to captain--holding that 
rank until March of 2001. In April of 2001 he was hired as Folsom's 
15th chief of police. He held the position of chief with Folsom until 
his retirement on October 26, 2010.
  Sam has also served in various other capacities, including as the 
chairman of the Law and Legislative Committee for the California Police 
Chiefs Association, past-president of the California Peace Officers 
Association, and former member of the California Homeland Security 
Public Safety Advisory Council. He continues to serve as a governor 
appointee to the State 9-1-1 Advisory Committee, the California Law 
Enforcement Telecommunication Advisory Committee and served 6 years as 
a member of the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training 
Advisory Committee.
  It has been my pleasure to know Sam Spiegel and more importantly, to 
call him my friend. I am pleased to congratulate him upon his 
retirement.

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