Major discipline · 2024[1]
Separated while IA pending- Rank as reported
- Senior Correctional Police Officer
- Sustained charge(s)
- (a)(1) , or failure to perform duties (a) (7) N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 12. B2: , loafing, idleness or willful failure to devote attention to tasks that could result in danger to persons or property. B9: Incompetence or inefficacy. C8: Falsification: intentional misstatement of material fact in connection with work, employment, application, attendance, or in any record, report, investigation, or other proceeding. C11: an employee. D1: Negligence in performing duty resulting in injury to persons or damage to property. D7: Violation of administrative procedures and/or regulations involving safety and security. E1: Violations of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision.
- Separated while IA pending
- Yes
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Senior Correctional Police Officer Beverly McRae separated from the Department of Corrections while an internal affairs case was pending in 2024. On January 5, 2024, McRae called a medical code after an incarcerated person died by suicide while she was on duty. A review of logbooks and camera footage found the person had been hanging in his cell, presumably deceased, for about 7 hours before the code, and that logbook entries reporting completed unit tours were false. McRae signed a settlement agreement on July 17, 2024.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On January 5, 2024 Officer McRae called a code to alert for medical attention. An Incarcerated Person had committed suicide while Officer McRae was on duty. After review of logbooks, body worn camera footage and Institutional Camera Footage, it was determined that the Incarcerated Person was hanging in his cell presumably deceased for about 7 hours before the code was called. There were several logs in the log book stating that tours of the unit were completed and that the unit was "secure" however review of the cameras revealed no tours were actually completed. Officer Mcrae signed a settlement agreement on this matter on July 17, 2024.