Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Dale Madan

Ridgefield Park Police Department · 2 records · 2023, 2024

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Records on this page come from the Attorney General's major discipline releases: final, post-appeal discipline as reported by the employing agency. They are sustained charges, not allegations.
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Data is a yearly snapshot. Cases are not tracked across years, and major discipline appears only in the year it became final after all appeals.
In internal affairs data, allegations are not findings: many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
Any compensation figure below comes from New Jersey Treasury pension data, a separate source from the discipline records. It is matched to this officer by name and employing agency at high confidence, not by certified identity.

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 8 days

Rank as reported: Sergeant
Sustained charge(s): Excessive Force
Other sanction: Training coaching or counseling
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Ridgefield Park PD reported that a review of body worn camera footage showed Sgt. Madan pushed a subject against the lobby doors of headquarters before conducting a search. The conduct violated the Attorney General's Use of Force Policy and the department's General Order on Use of Force. Madan received an 8 working day suspension and counseling.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Review of BWC showed that Sgt. Madan pushed a subject against the lobby doors of headquarters prior to conducting a search. The officer's conduct was a violation of the Attorney General's Use of Force Policy and the Ridgefield Park Police Department General Order on Use of Force. Sgt. Madan received an 8 working day suspension and counseling.

Major discipline · 2023^[2]

Suspended 4 days

Rank as reported: Officer
Sustained charge(s): Excessive Force
Separated while IA pending: No

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

In 2023, Ridgefield Park PD reported that body worn camera footage showed Officer Madan threw a defendant onto a cot in a holding cell while the defendant was handcuffed. The conduct violated the Attorney General's Use of Force Policy and the department's General Order on Use of Force. Madan received a 4 working day suspension.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Review of BWC shows that Officer Madan threw defendant on to a cot in a holding cell while handcuffed. The officer's conduct was a violation of the Attorney General's Use of Force Policy and the Ridgefield Park Police Department General Order on Use of Force. Officer Madan received a 4 working day suspension.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[3]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $169,051
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 16 years, 8 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 886. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1510. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 231555, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩