Officer Mercado was terminated by the Pennsauken Township Police Department for failing to respond to two calls for service, a neighbor dispute and a burglar alarm, to which he had been dispatched as an assist unit. An internal affairs investigation found that Mercado was loafing at the FOP hall for several hours and never responded to the calls, and that he was untruthful during the investigation. The conduct occurred in 2022, and the appeal concluded in 2024.
Officer Mercado was terminated for failing to respond to two calls for service (Neighbor Dispute & Burglar Alarm) where he was dispatched as an assist unit. During an internal affairs investigation, it was found that he was loafing at the FOP hall for several hours and never responded to the calls. Officer Mercado was also found to be untruthful during the investigation. This conduct occurred in 2022, but the appeal concluded in 2024.
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Other officers at Pennsauken Township Police Department
3 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.
No confident pension match found. This officer's record shows a termination; a terminated officer would not have an active PFRS/SPRS record at this agency, which is one reason no match may exist here. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Other general possibilities include insufficient vesting, a role not covered by PFRS or SPRS, a deferred or vested status not reflected in a current snapshot, or a data-matching limitation. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Jimmy Mercado's major discipline record?
Officer Mercado was terminated by the Pennsauken Township Police Department for failing to respond to two calls for service, a neighbor dispute and a burglar alarm, to which he had been dispatched as an assist unit. An internal affairs investigation found that Mercado was loafing at the FOP hall for several hours and never responded to the calls, and that he was untruthful during the investigation. The conduct occurred in 2022, and the appeal concluded in 2024.
What is Jimmy Mercado's major discipline record at Pennsauken Township Police Department?
Jimmy Mercado has one major discipline record at Pennsauken Township Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Jimmy Mercado's record show a termination?
Yes. At least one of Jimmy Mercado's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2024.
How large is Pennsauken Township Police Department, the department Jimmy Mercado worked for?
Pennsauken Township Police Department reported 85 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Jimmy Mercado individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1021. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8258. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩