Suspended 120 daysSeparated while IA pending2024 · as reported
Jersey City PD sustained charges against Police Officer Fernando Procel in 2024, including conduct toward the public, neglect of duty, and truthfulness. According to the record, on 01/15/23 Procel responded to a domestic violence call and discovered the victim had been sexually assaulted, but failed to provide police services after she requested a restraining order. He gave his supervisor an untruthful synopsis and was complicit in an untruthful report by his partner. Procel was suspended for 120 days and separated while a matter was pending.
On 01/15/23, P.O. Procel #3020 responded to a Domestic Violence call for service, whereby he discovered the victim had been sexually assaulted. While on the scene, he failed to provide police services to the victim after she repeatedly stated she was raped, threatened, physically assaulted, and requested a restraining order. He displayed an overall lack of empathy for the victim and failed to of offer the victim a restraining order. The victim was not provided medical assistance and/or an opportunity to have a Sexual Assault Response Team alerted, thereby preventing the collection of evidence. Additionally, P.O. Procel provided his supervisor an untruthful synopsis of the incident and was complicit in the submission of an untruthful investigation report submitted by his partner.
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What is a summary of Fernando Procel's major discipline record?
Jersey City PD sustained charges against Police Officer Fernando Procel in 2024, including conduct toward the public, neglect of duty, and truthfulness. According to the record, on 01/15/23 Procel responded to a domestic violence call and discovered the victim had been sexually assaulted, but failed to provide police services after she requested a restraining order. He gave his supervisor an untruthful synopsis and was complicit in an untruthful report by his partner. Procel was suspended for 120 days and separated while a matter was pending.
What is Fernando Procel's major discipline record at Jersey City Police Department?
Fernando Procel has one major discipline record at Jersey City Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Jersey City Police Department, the department Fernando Procel worked for?
Jersey City Police Department reported 799 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Fernando Procel individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1125. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8343. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩