What is Frank Cicerale's major discipline record at Franklin Township Police Department?

Frank Cicerale has one major discipline record at Franklin Township Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

Does Frank Cicerale's record show a termination?

The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Frank Cicerale at Franklin Township Police Department.

What is Frank Cicerale's base salary on record?

Frank Cicerale's reported base salary is $141,488, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Frank Cicerale has 23 years, 1 month of reported service.

How large is Franklin Township Police Department, the department Frank Cicerale worked for?

Franklin Township Police Department reported 103 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Frank Cicerale individually.

How does Franklin Township Police Department score on this site's report card?

This site's report card places Franklin Township Police Department in the highest fifth of peers of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Frank Cicerale individually.

Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Frank Cicerale

Franklin Township Police Department · 1 record · 2022

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

Officer Frank Cicerale was suspended for 60 days and forfeited 150 hours of vacation time, according to the Franklin Township Police Department - Somerset County. Cicerale had been ordered to complete an examination, and during it he failed to obey the order by refusing to complete the applicable forms and provide required information.

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.
All figures are self-reported by agencies to the New Jersey Attorney General and shown as reported. Blank fields read "not reported," never "no."
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.
Any compensation figure below comes from New Jersey Treasury pension data, a separate source from the discipline records. It is matched to this officer by name and employing agency at high confidence, not by certified identity.

Full caveats and definitions: methodology. To request a correction against the official record: corrections.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2022^[1]

Suspended 60 days

Rank as reported: Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s): Chain of Command
Obedience to Laws
Rules
and Written Directives
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer Cicerale was suspended for 60 days and forfeit 150 hours of vacation time. Officer Cicerale was ordered to complete an examination. During the examination he failed to obey the order to complete and comply with the examination by refusing to complete the applicable forms; and provide required information.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $141,488
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 23 years, 1 month

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.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

Ariel Almora · Franklin Township Police Department · 2022
Suspended 16 days
Sustained charge(s): Reports, Commanders and Supervisors, Computer Systems
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Manuel Rios · Franklin Township Police Department · 2022
Suspended 90 days
Sustained charge(s): Absence from Duty
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Michael Casey · Franklin Township Police Department · 2022
Suspended 8 days
Sustained charge(s): Reporting for Duty, Sick Leave Policy
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
James Boylan · Franklin Township Police Department · 2024
Suspended 4 days
Sustained charge(s): Unauthorized vehicle pursuit and multiple rule violations
same agency · similar sanction outcome
Christopher Long · Franklin Township Police Department · 2024
Suspended 30 days
Sustained charge(s): Prohibited activity on duty and multiple rule violations
same agency · similar sanction outcome

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Frank Cicerale's major discipline record?: Officer Frank Cicerale was suspended for 60 days and forfeited 150 hours of vacation time, according to the Franklin Township Police Department - Somerset County. Cicerale had been ordered to complete an examination, and during it he failed to obey the order by refusing to complete the applicable forms and provide required information.
What is Frank Cicerale's major discipline record at Franklin Township Police Department?: Frank Cicerale has one major discipline record at Franklin Township Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Frank Cicerale's record show a termination?: The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Frank Cicerale at Franklin Township Police Department.
What is Frank Cicerale's base salary on record?: Frank Cicerale's reported base salary is $141,488, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Frank Cicerale has 23 years, 1 month of reported service.
How large is Franklin Township Police Department, the department Frank Cicerale worked for?: Franklin Township Police Department reported 103 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Frank Cicerale individually.
How does Franklin Township Police Department score on this site's report card?: This site's report card places Franklin Township Police Department in the highest fifth of peers of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Frank Cicerale individually.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2295. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 241317, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8574. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩