[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 4731-4732]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  IN RECOGNITION OF CHIEF JOHN AMOROSO

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                         HON. DAVID G. VALADAO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 26, 2015

  Mr. VALADAO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Chief John 
Amoroso on his retirement after four years of dedicated service as the 
Chief of Police to the people of Avenal, California.
  Chief Amoroso was born on June 10, 1956 in San Francisco, California. 
He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1974.

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He went on to attend the College of the Sequoias on a baseball 
scholarship, where he earned an Associate of Science Degree.
  In July 1976, Chief Amoroso married Susan Brown. The couple would go 
on to have two daughters, Amy and Melissa.
  Chief Amoroso started his distinguished law enforcement career in 
1979 with the Hanford Police Department (HPD). He served with the 
department for nine years and earned the rank of Sergeant before being 
hired by the Kings County Sheriff's Office in 1988. In 1992, Chief 
Amoroso was awarded a Medal of Valor for his work in a SWAT mission 
that resulted in the arrest of a double homicide suspect. Chief Amoroso 
spent 21 years with the Kings County Sheriff's Office before retiring 
in December 2009.
  On April 1, 2010, the City of Avenal hired Chief Amoroso to establish 
Avenal's first police department. In addition to hiring officers, 
acquiring equipment, purchasing vehicles, and facilitating officer 
training, he designed the Ken Brown Public Safety Center where the 
Avenal Police Department is located.
  Chief Amoroso's work to establish the Avenal Police Department fully 
materialized on November 15, 2010 when the Avenal Police Department 
relieved the Kings County Sheriff's Office and assumed full 
responsibility for law enforcement in the City of Avenal.
  After dedicating his life to law enforcement, Chief Amoroso is 
retiring on April 10, 2015.
  Avenal and the entire Central Valley community have been extremely 
fortunate to have a dedicated law enforcement officer such as Chief 
Amoroso to ensure the wellbeing of their community.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues in the United States House of 
Representatives to join me in commending Chief John Amoroso for his 
thirty five years of dedicated law enforcement work in the Central 
Valley and congratulating him on his recent retirement from the Avenal 
Police Department.

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