Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Dorothy Ogden

New Jersey State Police · 1 record · 2021

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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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Major discipline · 2021^[1]

Terminated

Rank as reported: Detective Sergeant
Sustained charge(s): Falsification Of Reports And Records, Misleading Statements, Off Duty Incident - Alcohol Related, Unprofessional Conduct Toward Other Law Enforcement Officers, Questionable Conduct - Off Duty, Failure To Notify The Division Of Information To Which The Division Would Take Cognizance
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

Detective Sergeant Dorothy Ogden was criminally charged with fourth degree falsifying or tampering with records and entered the Pretrial Intervention Program. As a result of the agreement, Ogden was disqualified from any employment with the State of New Jersey and was terminated from employment with the Division.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

The member was criminally charged with fourth degree Falsifying or Tampering with Records and entered into the Pretrial Intervention Program. As a result of the agreement, the member was disqualified from any employment with the State of New Jersey and was terminated from employment with the Division.

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $4,725.39
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $4,725.39
Final salary basis: $126,010
Retired: July 2021
Pension fund: State Police Retirement System (SPRS)
Reported years of service: 22 years, 4 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 2674. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 328527 (member 44296082), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩