Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

James Pollard

Department Of Corrections · 2 records · 2025

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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.
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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.

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 30 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a) General Causes (6) a public employee HRB 84-17, as amended B2 - , loafing, idleness or willful failure to devote attention to tasks which could result in danger to persons or property B4 - Sleeping while on Duty D7 - Violation of administrative procedure and/or regulations involving safety and security E1 - Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision
Separated while IA pending: No

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

On April 1, 2025, South Woods State Prison Senior Correctional Police Officer James Pollard was observed sleeping while on duty at Inspira Medical Center in Vineland, the Department of Corrections reported. Pollard was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action on July 10, 2025, for a 30-day suspension.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 4/1/25, South Woods State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) James Pollard was observed sleeping while on duty at Inspira Medical Center in Vineland, NJ. SCPO Pollard was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action on 7/10/25 for a 30-day suspension.

Major discipline · 2025^[2]

Suspended 90 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a) General Causes (6) a public employee HRB 84-17, as amended B2 - , loafing, idleness or willful failure to devote attention to tasks which could result in danger to persons or property B4 - Sleeping on Duty D7 - Violation of administrative procedures and/or regulations involving safety and security E1 - Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision
Separated while IA pending: No

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

On June 5, 2025, South Woods State Prison Senior Correctional Police Officer James Pollard was photographed sleeping at Inspira Medical Center in Vineland, according to the Department of Corrections. Pollard received a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action on August 29, 2025, for a 90-day suspension.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 6/5/25, South Woods State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) James Pollard was photographed sleeping at Inspira Medical Center in Vineland, NJ. SCPO Pollard was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action on 8/29/25 for a 90-day suspension.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[3]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $95,784
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 8 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 714. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 715. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 216113, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩