Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Alfonso Pinnola

Little Falls Police Department · 1 record · 2022

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Major discipline · 2022^[1]

DemotedSuspended 18 days

Rank as reported: Sergeant
Sustained charge(s): Failure to Supervise
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

Little Falls Police Department demoted Sergeant Pinnola and suspended him for 18 days in 2022. According to the record, the discipline was for failing to take appropriate action and to supervise a subordinate during a DWI investigation. The sustained charges were Neglect of Duty and Failure to Supervise.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Sgt. Pinnola was demoted for failing to take appropriate action and supervise a subordinate during a DWI Investigation.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $155,044
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 20 years

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 2281. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 235338, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩