Lieutenant McKenna supervised the Detective Bureau from May 2019 to June 2020, and the record states he failed to stop horseplay between members and failed to stop inappropriate text messages, at times allowing them to occur. The South River Police Department suspended McKenna for 20 days in 2022 on sustained charges of failure to supervise and conduct unbecoming.
Lt. McKenna was the supervisor of the Detective Bureau from May 2019 to June 2020. During this timeframe, he failed to stop horseplay between members of the Detective Bureau. He also failed to stop inappropriate text message between members of this Unit while at times allowing it to occur. Lt. McKenna was suspended for 20 days.
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What is a summary of John Mckenna's major discipline record?
Lieutenant McKenna supervised the Detective Bureau from May 2019 to June 2020, and the record states he failed to stop horseplay between members and failed to stop inappropriate text messages, at times allowing them to occur. The South River Police Department suspended McKenna for 20 days in 2022 on sustained charges of failure to supervise and conduct unbecoming.
What is John Mckenna's major discipline record at South River Police Department?
John Mckenna has one major discipline record at South River Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is John Mckenna's base salary on record?
John Mckenna's reported base salary is $211,672, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. John Mckenna has 29 years, 6 months of reported service.
How large is South River Police Department, the department John Mckenna worked for?
South River Police Department reported 32 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about John Mckenna individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2248. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 234593, 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 8410. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩