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David Betancourt

Q: What is David Betancourt's base salary on record?

David Betancourt's reported base salary is $176,752, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. David Betancourt has 24 years, 11 months of reported service.

Paramus Police Department · 1 record · 2021

Suspended 60 days2021 · as reported

Officer Betancourt received a 60-day suspension from the Paramus Police Department in 2021 for an off-duty DUI. The sustained charges were not provided, and the agency reported no further synopsis beyond that brief description of the conduct.

About this data

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.
All figures are self-reported by agencies to the New Jersey Attorney General and shown as reported. Blank fields read "not reported," never "no."
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 records

Major discipline · 2021^[1]

Suspended 60 days

Rank as reported: Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s): not provided
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Off duty DUI

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

Raymond Sosa · Aberdeen Township Police Department · 2021
Suspended 19 days
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Kevin Craig · Absecon City Police Department · 2021
Suspended 15 days
Sustained charge(s): Performance of Duty
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Jonathan Diorio · Asbury Park Police Department · 2021
Suspended 52 days
same year · similar sanction outcome
Martina Martin · Atlantic City Police Department · 2021
Suspended 10 days
Sustained charge(s): Evidence & Property Control
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Warren Young · Atlantic City Police Department · 2021
Suspended 10 days
Sustained charge(s): Neglect of Duty
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Other officers at Paramus Police Department

One other named officer with a reported major discipline record at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

Sergeant Steve Nepola1 record, latest 2024

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $176,752
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 24 years, 11 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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of David Betancourt's major discipline record?

What is David Betancourt's major discipline record at Paramus Police Department?

David Betancourt has one major discipline record at Paramus Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2021. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is David Betancourt's base salary on record?

David Betancourt's reported base salary is $176,752, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. David Betancourt has 24 years, 11 months of reported service.

How large is Paramus Police Department, the department David Betancourt worked for?

Paramus Police Department reported 102 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about David Betancourt individually.

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Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2433. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 223978, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8175. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩