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Jose Samol

New Jersey State Police · 1 record · 2020

Suspended 180 days2020 · as reported

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.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2020[1]

Suspended 180 days
Rank as reported
Detective I (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
not applicable
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

  • Michael Kulik · New Jersey State Police · 2020

    Suspended 180 days

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  • Danyel Barnes · New Jersey State Police · 2020

    Suspended 60 days

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  • Paul Dreher · New Jersey State Police · 2020

    Suspended 20 days

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Paul Dreher · New Jersey State Police · 2020

    Suspended 10 days

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Adam-Paul Garcia · New Jersey State Police · 2020

    Suspended 20 days

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

Other officers at New Jersey State Police

94 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

All 94 at the New Jersey State Police page

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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Jose Samol's major discipline record?

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.

What is Jose Samol's major discipline record at New Jersey State Police?

Jose Samol has one major discipline record at New Jersey State Police in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2020. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Jose Samol's base salary on record?

Jose Samol's reported base salary is $123,042, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Jose Samol has 22 years, 3 months of reported service.

How large is New Jersey State Police, the department Jose Samol worked for?

New Jersey State Police reported 3,351 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Jose Samol individually.

Sources

  1. [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. [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/. ↩
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8645. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩