Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

James Lalor

Montclair Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Other sanction

Rank as reported: Captain
Sustained charge(s): Excessive Force
Other sanction: Loss of time
Separated while IA pending: No

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

On March 26, 2025, Captain James Lalor applied physical force to an arrestee inside the municipal court by taking the arrestee to the ground. An internal affairs investigation determined the force was excessive and inappropriate. The Montclair PD sustained a charge of excessive force, and Lalor lost 24 compensatory hours.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On March 26, 2025, Cpt. Lalor applied physical force to an arrestee inside the municipal court . The arrest was reviewed by the Office of Professional Standards which resulted in an Internal Affairs investigation. The Internal Affairs investigation determined that Cpt. Lalor utilized excessive/inappropriate force by taking the arrestee to the ground. As a result, Cpt. Lalor suffered a loss of 24 compensatory hours.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $221,043
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 32 years, 8 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 313. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 224629, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩