Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Brian Pascoe

Watchung Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 4 days

Rank as reported: Officer
Sustained charge(s): Multiple Department Rule Violations
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Officer Brian Pascoe was suspended by the Watchung Police Department in a case adjudicated in 2025. During a September 2024 shift while serving as Acting Watch Commander, Pascoe failed to notify a subordinate officer about a restricted area of their patrol district. During a November 2024 shift, Pascoe himself entered a restricted area of his patrol district. He was found to have violated multiple department rules and was suspended for 4 twelve hour shifts, a total of 48 hours.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

During a shift in September of 2024, while Acting Watch Commander, Ofc. Pascoe failed to notify a subordinate officer about a restricted area of their patrol district. During another shift in November of 2024, Ofc. Pascoe himself entered a restricted area of his patrol district. As a result of both of these incidents Ofc. Pascoe was found to have violated multiple department rules. The case was adjudicated in 2025 and Ofc. Pascoe was suspended for 4 twelve hour shifts (total of 48 hours).

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $72,065
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 10 years, 7 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.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 529. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 225531, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩