Riverside PD reported that Officer Ferreira was terminated for lying to his supervisor on two occasions. The first related to officer safety and a subject having access to firearms, and the second involved information he was supposed to provide a driver during a traffic stop but failed to provide. Ferreira was also reported to be deceptive and disrespectful to his Field Training Officer after becoming argumentative about training he had received.
Officer Ferreira was terminated for lying to his supervisor on two occasions. The first occasion related to officer safety and a subject having access to firearms. The second involved information he was supposed to provide a driver during a traffic stop which he failed to provide. He was also reported to be deceptive and disrespectful to his Field Training Officer after becoming argumentative about training he had received.
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Compensation and pension
No confident pension match found. This officer's record shows a termination; a terminated officer would not have an active PFRS/SPRS record at this agency, which is one reason no match may exist here. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Other general possibilities include insufficient vesting, a role not covered by PFRS or SPRS, a deferred or vested status not reflected in a current snapshot, or a data-matching limitation. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of David Ferreira's major discipline record?
Riverside PD reported that Officer Ferreira was terminated for lying to his supervisor on two occasions. The first related to officer safety and a subject having access to firearms, and the second involved information he was supposed to provide a driver during a traffic stop but failed to provide. Ferreira was also reported to be deceptive and disrespectful to his Field Training Officer after becoming argumentative about training he had received.
What is David Ferreira's major discipline record at Riverside Police Department?
David Ferreira has one major discipline record at Riverside Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does David Ferreira's record show a termination?
Yes. At least one of David Ferreira's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2022.
How large is Riverside Police Department, the department David Ferreira worked for?
Riverside Police Department reported 19 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 Ferreira individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2088. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8228. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩