Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

John Dadura

Wildwood Police Department · 2 records · 2021

About this data

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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Data is a yearly snapshot. Cases are not tracked across years, and major discipline appears only in the year it became final after all appeals.
In internal affairs data, allegations are not findings: many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
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Major discipline · 2021^[1]

Suspended 60 days

Rank as reported: Patrol Officer
Sustained charge(s): not provided
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

Wildwood PD reported that Patrol Officer John Dadura was suspended for 60 days for a violation of department rules and regulations. The specific sustained charges were not provided by the agency, and the year reported was 2021.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Violation of Department Rules & Regulations

Major discipline · 2021^[2]

Suspended 7 days

Rank as reported: Patrol Officer
Sustained charge(s): not provided
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

In a separate 2021 matter, Wildwood PD suspended Patrol Officer John Dadura for 7 days for a violation of department rules and regulations. The agency did not provide the specific sustained charges connected to this record.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Violation of Department Rules & Regulations

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[3]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $120,151
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 12 years, 6 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 2511. 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 2512. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 231354, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩