Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Jose Samol

New Jersey State Police · 1 record · 2020

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Major discipline · 2020^[1]

Suspended 180 days

Rank as reported: Detective I
Sustained charge(s): not applicable
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Detective I Jose Samol was suspended for 180 days by the New Jersey State Police in 2020. Samol admitted acting in an unofficial capacity to the discredit of the Division when he attempted to use his official position to secure a lesser sentence for a convicted criminal by authoring a letter to the courts and citing his position as a trooper. He also maintained a questionable relationship with the convicted felon and provided false information concerning the relationship to internal investigators.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Member admitted to acting in an unofficial capacity to the discredit of the Division when he attempted to use his official position to secure a lesser sentence for a convicted criminal by authoring a letter to the courts and citing his position as a trooper. The member also maintained a questionable relationship with the convicted felon and provided false information concerning the relationship to internal investigators.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $123,042
Pension fund: State Police Retirement System (SPRS)
Reported years of service: 22 years, 3 months

How to read this

The amount is as reported by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury in its YourMoney pension data, as of March 31, 2026. It is the pension-basis figure and may not include overtime, accrued leave, stipends, or other pay. The link between this officer and this pension record is a records-based match at high confidence (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2945. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 254232, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩