Marinelli receives ‘Former Trooper of the Year’ Award from NJSP
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MARINELLI, from Page 1
during which he has continued to
serve his community.
“The training and the exposure
and the association that you had to
develop—it more or less gets in-
stilled in you and you carry it with
you after you leave the state po-
lice. Then, that enables you to
continue performing and serving
the public in a professional man-
ner,” Marinelli said.
On November 3, the Associa-
tion of former New Jersey State
Troopers recognized Marinelli for
his prolonged service career and
longstanding achievements by
presenting him with the 2018
“former Trooper of the Year”
Award during the association’s
fall general membership meeting
at the New Jersey State Police
Headquarters in West Trenton.
The Association of former New
Jersey State Troopers is a non-
profit organization and, according
to its website, its mission is to
continue the camaraderie of re-
tired New Jersey state troopers
while offering the combined
knowledge, experience and moral
support of its members to former
troopers and the New Jersey state
police.
The association was founded in
1959 and began naming a yearly
“former Trooper of the Year”
Award recipient about six years
later, according to George J. Wren
Jr., a retired New Jersey State Po-
lice Lieutenant and vice president
of the association’s board of direc-
tors.
Wren Jr. said a committee
within the association selects the
year’s “Trooper of the Year” from
a group of nominees who are each
chosen by a member of the asso-
ciation. The committee recom-
mends a winner to the board of
directors based on the nominee’s
character, their good standing with
the association, the volunteering
of their time, effort or expertise to
the association and their volunteer
service time within their respec-
tive communities.
Marinelli was nominated for
“Trooper of the Year” by retired
New Jersey State Police Lt. Col.
richard Jankowski, which Wren
Jr. said was an apropos selection
due to his professional experi-
ences with Marinelli during their
time on the force.
“He is the epitome of the New
Jersey state police. The guy is
very, very service-oriented and his
volunteering and giving back to
the community is just a prime ex-
ample of how this man acts, how
this man thinks, how this man and
his family are involved in every-
thing that they can possibly be in-
volved in. And the former
Troopers Association was only
one part of that,” Wren Jr. said.
Marinelli said receiving the
award was a unique honor, espe-
cially due to the fact that his nom-
ination was submitted by such a
high-ranking former state police
officer.
“it was a great honor for me in
the fact that it was statewide, and
the fact that i was recommended
by Lieutenant Colonel richard
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