Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Joseph Gressel

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

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.
Any compensation figure below comes from New Jersey Treasury pension data, a separate source from the discipline records. It is matched to this officer by name and employing agency at high confidence, not by certified identity.

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Separated while IA pending

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 6. an employee N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 12. . C11: an employee. E1: Violations of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision. N.J.S.A. 2C: 39-4-50. Driving under the influence N.J.S.A 2C:39:4-96. Reckless driving.
Separated while IA pending: Yes

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

Senior Correctional Police Officer Joseph Gressel separated from the Dept Of Corrections while an internal affairs matter was pending. On February 28, 2023, Gressel was arrested by the Mullica Township Police Department after being observed driving erratically and unable to stay in one lane. Police conducted a field sobriety test, and breath samples taken at the station showed Gressel had a blood alcohol level of 0.14%. He signed a settlement agreement on June 5, 2024.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On February 28, 2023, Officer Gressel was arrested by the Mullica Township Police Department. Officer Gressel was observed driving erratically and unable to maintain staying in one lane. After pulling into a parking lot the police pulled Officer Gressel over and conducted a field sobriety test. Officer Gressel was subsequently arrested and taken to the police station where breath samples were taken and Officer Gressel produced a blood alcohol level of 0.14%. Officer Gressel signed a settlement agreement on this matter on June 5, 2024.

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $4,151.14
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $4,151.14
Final salary basis: $99,627
Retired: April 2024
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 21 years

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 1409. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 358304 (member 44345049), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩