Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Derek McGee

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

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.
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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.
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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Terminated

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a)(6) a Public Employee. (a)(3) (a)(12) . C11: an employee. D7: Violation of administrative procedure and/or regulations involving safety and security. E1: Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision.
Separated while IA pending: No

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

The Department of Corrections terminated Senior Correctional Police Officer Derek McGee in 2024 after the Police Training Commission revoked his license, which the department found rendered him unfit for employment as a correctional officer. On or about 4/26/23, an Essex County Superior Court forfeiture order barred McGee from public employment, and on or about 6/5/23 he was convicted of simple assault related to an incident involving an inmate at Northern State Prison that occurred while he was employed.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

The Police Training Commission has revoked Officer McGee's license and as such is deemed unfit for employment with NJDOC as Correctional Officer. His inability to hold a valid PTC license is considered a public employee and violates pertinent rules and regulations of the NJDOC. Specifically, on or about April 26, 2023, a forfeiture order was entered in Essex County Superior Court whereby Derek McGee forever forfeited his right to public employment. On or about June 5, 2023, Derek McGee was convicted of simple assault pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(a)(1) related to an incident involving an inmate at Northern State Prison that occurred while he was employed as a corrections officer with the New Jersey Department of Corrections.

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $4,822.64
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $4,822.64
Final salary basis: $83,670
Retired: August 2023
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 29 years, 2 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 1290. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 351328 (member 44334637), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩