North Bergen Police Department suspended Detective Frank Mena for 10 days in 2024, with a loss of time also imposed. Mena violated department policies prohibiting a hostile work environment by making several racially charged jokes and comments toward other officers. Sustained charges were conduct unbecoming a public employee and violation of the policy prohibiting discrimination and harassment.
a Public Employee. Policy prohibiting discrimination and harrassment.
Other sanction
Loss of time
Separated while IA pending
No
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Detective Frank Mena was suspended for ten (10) days for violating several department policies prohibiting a hostile work enviroment. Det. Mena made several racially charged jokes and comments towards other officers. The behavior and conduct towards other officers was inappropriate and unbecoming of a police officer.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Frank Mena's major discipline record?
North Bergen Police Department suspended Detective Frank Mena for 10 days in 2024, with a loss of time also imposed. Mena violated department policies prohibiting a hostile work environment by making several racially charged jokes and comments toward other officers. Sustained charges were conduct unbecoming a public employee and violation of the policy prohibiting discrimination and harassment.
What is Frank Mena's major discipline record at North Bergen Police Department?
Frank Mena has one major discipline record at North Bergen Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Frank Mena's pension on record?
Frank Mena's reported monthly pension allowance is $8,075.97, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Frank Mena has 36 years, 7 months of reported service.
How large is North Bergen Police Department, the department Frank Mena worked for?
North Bergen Police Department reported 131 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 Mena individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1130. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 360116 (member 44348370), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8345. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩