Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Diana Golonek

Saddle River Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 21 days

Rank as reported: Sergeant
Sustained charge(s): Rules of Conduct - Reports, Body Worn Camera Policy Violations
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Saddle River PD reported that on October 24, 2023, Sgt. Golonek responded to a call for service and afterward entered inaccurate information in a police report and had a subordinate officer delete factual information from his report. Golonek also improperly viewed her body worn camera video to review and alter the subordinate officer's report and failed to notify third parties that they were being recorded. She received a 21 day suspension.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On Tuesday, October 24, 2023, Sgt. Diana Golonek responded to a call for service. After the conclusion of this call, Sgt. Golonek entered inaccurate information in a police report and also had a subordinate officer delete factual information from his report. In addition, Sgt. Golonek improperly viewed her Body Worn Camera video to review and alter the report of the subordinate officer. Sgt. Golonek also failed to notify third parties that they were being recorded via Body Worn Camera.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $159,797
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 12 years, 7 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 84. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 238207, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩