Officer John Mecka of the Nutley Police Department made a variety of unprofessional remarks while assisting with an investigation. Mecka also made a statement implying that a superior officer had a diminished mental capacity, and he deactivated his body worn camera before the incident concluded. He received an eight-day suspension. The record also lists training, coaching, or counseling as an additional sanction.
3:1.1 Standards of Conduct and Nutley Police Policy Body Worn Cameras
Other sanction
Training coaching or counseling
Separated while IA pending
No
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Officer Mecka, while assisting with an investigation, proceeded to make a variety of unprofessional remarks. Officer Mecka also made a statement implying that a superior officer had a diminished mental capacity, and he deactivated his body worn camera prior to the incidents conclusion. Officer Mecka was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action imposing an eight-day suspension.
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What is a summary of John Mecka's major discipline record?
Officer John Mecka of the Nutley Police Department made a variety of unprofessional remarks while assisting with an investigation. Mecka also made a statement implying that a superior officer had a diminished mental capacity, and he deactivated his body worn camera before the incident concluded. He received an eight-day suspension. The record also lists training, coaching, or counseling as an additional sanction.
What is John Mecka's major discipline record at Nutley Police Department?
John Mecka has one major discipline record at Nutley Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is John Mecka's base salary on record?
John Mecka's reported base salary is $137,996, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. John Mecka has 22 years, 8 months of reported service.
How large is Nutley Police Department, the department John Mecka worked for?
Nutley Police Department reported 72 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 Mecka individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1079. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 228436, 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 8300. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩