Sprungl gets top honor

Boundary County Sheriff Greg Sprungl has received the highest honor possible for a management-level law enforcement officer in Idaho.

Jeff Black, director of Idaho Peace Officer Standards and Training Academy, on Tuesday presented Sprungl with the POST Executive certificate.   Officers receiving this honor have to have a minimum of 100 hours of specific management training, carry advanced certificates and have a college education.  Sprungl is one of three sheriffs in Idaho who has received this certification. 

Sprungl started his career with the sheriff’s office in 1990.  In 1994  Sprungl was appointed sheriff and elected to office in 1996.  From 2001 to 2003, Sprungl spent time in Kosovo serving as a United Nations Police Officer. 

When Sprungl returned to Boundary County from Kosovo, he was employed by the Bonners Ferry City  Police Department as a corporal assigned to the Boundary County Drug Task Force. 

In 2004 Sprungl was re-elected to Sheriff of Boundary County and last November re-elected again for another four-year term.

Last summer Sprungl was appointed to the Idaho POST Council by Gov. Butch Otter