Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Charles Novak

Sayreville Police Department · 1 record · 2023

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Major discipline · 2023^[1]

Suspended 12 days

Rank as reported: Patrol Officer
Sustained charge(s): Loafing or Idling ,
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Officer Charles Novak was suspended for 12 days by the Sayreville Police Department in 2023. The record states that on September 14, 2018, Novak was idling and loafing while assigned to a prisoner watch detail at the Crisis Unit of Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy. The sustained charges were loafing or idling and conduct unbecoming.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer Charles Novak was suspended for 12 days (@8 hours a day) for a police officer and a violation of the Department Rules and Regulations for idling or loafing. On 9/14/18, Officer Novak was idling and loafing while assigned a prisoner watch detail at the Crisis Unit of Raritan Bay Medical Center Perth Amboy.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $126,073
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 21 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 1789. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 235097, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩