Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

James Colacci

Lyndhurst Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 33 days

Rank as reported: Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): N.J.S.A. 40A:14-147 (Statutory misconduct) Lyndhurst Police Department Rules and Regulations, Section 3:1.1 (Standards of Conduct) Lyndhurst Police Department Rules and Regulations, Section 3:1.11 (Obedience to Laws and Regulations) Lyndhurst Police Department Rules and Regulations, Section 3:2.12 (Inspection) Section 45.02 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Township of Lyndhurst and Lyndhurst Policemen’s Benevolent Association, PBA Local 202, January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2026
Other sanction: Loss of time
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Police Officer James Colacci was suspended for 33 days by the Lyndhurst Police Department in 2025 and lost time. On April 16, 2025, Colacci submitted a wedding invitation to a supervisor in order to be excused from the mandatory Memorial Day inspection, and the invitation was found to be fabricated. The investigation found he purposely and knowingly submitted a manufactured invitation to be excused. The sustained charges included statutory misconduct under N.J.S.A. 40A:14-147 and violations of department standards of conduct.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On April 16, 2025, P.O. James Colacci submitted a wedding invitation to a supervisor in order to be excused from the mandatory Lyndhurst Police Department Memorial Day inspection. This wedding invitation was found to be fabricated. Based upon this investigation, it was found that P.O. Colacci purposely and knowingly submitted a manufactured wedding investigation in order to be excused from the mandatory Memorial Day inspection.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $80,636
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 8 years, 10 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 79. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 222657, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩