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John Mckenna

South River Police Department · 1 record · 2022

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Major discipline · 2022^[1]

Suspended 20 days

Rank as reported: Lieutenant
Sustained charge(s): Failure to Supervise,
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

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.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

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.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $211,672
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 29 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 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/. ↩