Officer Jason Mitchell was suspended for 45 days by the Secaucus Police Department in 2021. According to the record, Mitchell worked an extra-duty job and knowingly misrepresented his overtime request to receive more pay. The agency did not provide the sustained charges.
Sustained charge(s): 1:4.14 Neglect of Duty 1:5.2 Code of Ethics 2:1.4(5) Police Officers 3:1.3 Obedience to Laws, Ordinances, Rules, and Written Directives…
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 (matching name, exact employing agency, police-confirmed occupation, no competing candidate, and a scored match probability above the published floor; see the methodology), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.
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Police Transparency NJ, "Jason Mitchell, Secaucus Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/jason-mitchell-secaucus-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Jason Mitchell's major discipline record?
Officer Jason Mitchell was suspended for 45 days by the Secaucus Police Department in 2021. According to the record, Mitchell worked an extra-duty job and knowingly misrepresented his overtime request to receive more pay. The agency did not provide the sustained charges.
What is Jason Mitchell's major discipline record at Secaucus Police Department?
Jason Mitchell has one major discipline record at Secaucus Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2021. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Jason Mitchell's base salary on record?
Jason Mitchell's reported base salary is $74,431, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Jason Mitchell has 6 years, 3 months of reported service.
How large is Secaucus Police Department, the department Jason Mitchell worked for?
Secaucus Police Department reported 79 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Jason Mitchell individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2599. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 222443, 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 8346. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩