Officer Murillo, assigned as a School Resource Officer at F.W. Holbein Middle School, received a report on February 28, 2023 of sexual contact involving a 12-year-old student and failed to investigate that day or in the following months. She placed the documentation in her desk and did not report or preserve the evidence. The Department learned of the matter when the parents inquired on July 25, 2023. Mount Holly PD suspended Murillo for 30 days and imposed a monetary fine or loss of pay.
4.1.4Â Â Â Obedience to Laws and Rules Employees shall obey all laws, ordinances, rules, policies, and procedures, general orders and directives of the department. A violation shall constitute a class I offense. (SOP 3.01 Property Evidence Documentation) 4.6.1 . Failure to give suitable attention to the performance of duty. Examples include, but are not limited to: failure to take appropriate action on the occasion of a crime, disorder, or other or other act or condition deserving police attention
absence without leave
failure to report to duty at the time and place designated
unnecessary absence from the beat during a tour of duty
failure to perform duties or comply with the provisions prescribed in the police manual
failure to conform to the departments operating procedures. 4.1.2 Performance of Duty. All employees shall promptly perform their duties as required or directed by law, department rule, policy or directive, or by lawful order of a superior officer. All lawful duties required by a competent authority shall be performed as promptly as directed, notwithstanding the employee’s general assignment of duties and responsibilities. A violation shall constitute a class I offense.
Other sanction
Monetary fine or loss of pay
Separated while IA pending
not reported
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On February 28, 2023, while assigned as a School Resource Officer at F.W. Holbein Middle School, Officer Murillo received a report of a sexual contact Involving a 12-year old student from the juvenile victim and her parent, and failed to conduct an investigation of the incident on that day or in the months that followed. Officer Murillo placed the documentation of the incident in her desk and failed to report or preserve the evidence or to complete any investigation of the incident. The Department learned of the incident when the parents inquired about the status of the investigation on July 25, 2023. Evidence (Cell phone) from another case was found in her desk during this investigation and never was not secured properly.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Deborah Murillo's major discipline record?
Officer Murillo, assigned as a School Resource Officer at F.W. Holbein Middle School, received a report on February 28, 2023 of sexual contact involving a 12-year-old student and failed to investigate that day or in the following months. She placed the documentation in her desk and did not report or preserve the evidence. The Department learned of the matter when the parents inquired on July 25, 2023. Mount Holly PD suspended Murillo for 30 days and imposed a monetary fine or loss of pay.
What is Deborah Murillo's major discipline record at Mount Holly Police Department?
Deborah Murillo has one major discipline record at Mount Holly Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Mount Holly Police Department, the department Deborah Murillo worked for?
Mount Holly Police Department reported 24 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Deborah Murillo individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1537. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8221. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩