[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 167 (Thursday, November 21, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S8453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                      TRIBUTE TO NICHOLAS GIACCONE

 Ms. AYOTTE. Mr. President, today I wish to recognize and 
congratulate Chief of Police Nicholas Giaccone of the Hanover, NH 
Police Department for his 40 years of dedicated service to the law 
enforcement profession, the Town of Hanover, and the State of New 
Hampshire.
  Chief Giaccone began his law enforcement career in 1973 as a patrol 
officer with the Town of Hanover, home of Dartmouth College. Nicholas 
Giaccone was promoted to detective in 1977; detective sergeant in 1987; 
and assumed the role of acting chief of police, then chief of police in 
July of 1994. As a detective sergeant, Nicholas Giaccone helped lead 
the investigation into a double homicide of two graduate students, 
which culminated in the successful prosecution and conviction of Haile 
Selassie Girmay on March 2, 1993.
  He was chief of police when two Dartmouth professors, Half and 
Susanne Zantop, were killed inside their Etna home in 2001, garnering 
national headlines for days. Chief Giaccone's diligence in ensuring the 
department properly handled the vital physical evidence at the scene, 
led to the successful convictions of Robert Tulloch and James Parker. 
They were sentenced on April 4, 2002.
  During his long tenure as a police chief, Chief Giaccone has been a 
leader in promoting community oriented policing; in improving public 
safety within the State of New Hampshire; and in promoting sound public 
policies and practices, which have helped keep New Hampshire one of the 
safest States in the Nation. Chief Giaccone has worked tirelessly with 
community leaders, New Hampshire's Legislature, and other public 
officials, to better the administration of justice and promote public 
safety.
  As Chief Nicholas Giaccone celebrates his retirement, I want to 
commend him on a job well done, and I ask my colleagues to join me in 
wishing him well in all future endeavors.

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