Major discipline · 2025[1]
Suspended 124 days- Rank as reported
- Officer
- Sustained charge(s)
- (a) 1 - , or Failure to Perform Duties (a) 6 - a Public Employee (a) 7 - (a) 12 - Obedience to Laws and Rules and Regulations Standards of Conduct Performance of Duty Fraternization Unbecoming Conduct All Other Conduct Prohibited Activity on Duty Inattentiveness to Duty Employee Entrance and Personal Property Personal Sell Phones/Employee Personal Property
- Separated while IA pending
- No
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
While on duty at the Bergen County Corrections and Rehabilitation Center and supervising inmate video visits, Correctional Police Officer Daniel Olmedo used his smartwatch to send text messages to the sibling of an inmate on an active video visit. Olmedo provided that sibling with information specific to the internal operations of the facility and sent voice messages to the same person while on duty. On another date, he failed to investigate the smell of tobacco smoke in his assigned housing unit. The agency suspended Olmedo for 124 days in 2025.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Correctional Police Officer Daniel Olmedo, while on duty at the Bergen County Corrections and Rehabilitation Center (BCCRC), and supervising inmate video visits, sent text messages utilizing his smartwatch, while inside the facility, to the sibling of an inmate that was on an active video visit. Additionally, Officer Olmedo provided the sibling of the incarcerated inmate with information specific to the internal operations of the BCCRC, along with sending voice messages to the same individual while on duty at the BCCRC. On another date, Officer Olmedo failed to investigate the smell of tobacco smoke in the housing unit he was assigned to.