What is Joseph Savino's major discipline record at Bergen County Sheriff's Department?

Joseph Savino has one major discipline record at Bergen County Sheriff's Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

Does Joseph Savino's record show a termination?

The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Joseph Savino at Bergen County Sheriff's Department.

What is Joseph Savino's base salary on record?

Joseph Savino's reported base salary is $169,174, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Joseph Savino has 21 years, 6 months of reported service.

How does Bergen County Sheriff's Department score on this site's report card?

This site's report card places Bergen County Sheriff's Department in the second-highest fifth of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Joseph Savino individually.

Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Joseph Savino

Bergen County Sheriff's Department · 1 record · 2022

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

Sergeant Joseph Savino, while on duty, acted in an unprofessional manner when he engaged in a verbal argument with an officer under his command in the Bergen County Justice Center, the Bergen County Sheriffs Office reported for 2022. Savino was suspended for 6 days.

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.
All figures are self-reported by agencies to the New Jersey Attorney General and shown as reported. Blank fields read "not reported," never "no."
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 records

Major discipline · 2022^[1]

Suspended 6 days

Rank as reported: Sergeant (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s): (a)(12) Obedience to Laws and Rules and Regulations Standards of Conduct Respect Courtesy
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Sergeant Savino, while on duty, acted in an unprofessional manner when he engaged in a verbal argument with an officer under his command, in the Bergen County Justice Center.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $169,174
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 21 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.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

Robert Duboue · Bergen County Sheriff's Department · 2022
Suspended 130 days
Sustained charge(s): 4A:2-2.3(a)(1) Incompetency, Inefficiency or Failure to Perform Duties 4A:2-2.3(a)(6) Conduct Unbecoming an Public Employee 4A:2-2.3(a)(7)…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Christian Nunez · Bergen County Sheriff's Department · 2022
Suspended 10 days
Sustained charge(s): 4A:2-2.3(a)(1) Incompetency, Inefficiency or Failure to Perform Duties 4A:2-2.3(a)(7) Neglect of Duty 4A:2-2.3(a)(12) Other sufficient…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Adrian Diaz · Bergen County Sheriff's Department · 2022
Suspended 10 days
Sustained charge(s): 4A:2-2.3(a)(4) Chronic Absenteeism or Lateness 4A:2-2.3(a)(12) Other sufficient cause Obedience to Laws and Rules and Regulations Absence…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Anthony Rock · Bergen County Sheriff's Department · 2022
Suspended 10 days
Sustained charge(s): 4A:2-2.3(a)(4) Chronic Absenteeism or Lateness 4A:2-2.3(a)(12) Other sufficient cause Obedience to Laws and Rules and Regulations Absence…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Joseph Frino · Bergen County Sheriff's Department · 2022
Suspended 10 days
Sustained charge(s): 4A:2-2.3(a)(1) Incompetency, Inefficiency or Failure to Perform Duties 4A:2-2.3(a)(6) Conduct Unbecoming an Public Employee 4A:2-2.3(a)(7)…
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Questions and answers

What is a summary of Joseph Savino's major discipline record?: Sergeant Joseph Savino, while on duty, acted in an unprofessional manner when he engaged in a verbal argument with an officer under his command in the Bergen County Justice Center, the Bergen County Sheriffs Office reported for 2022. Savino was suspended for 6 days.
What is Joseph Savino's major discipline record at Bergen County Sheriff's Department?: Joseph Savino has one major discipline record at Bergen County Sheriff's Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Joseph Savino's record show a termination?: The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Joseph Savino at Bergen County Sheriff's Department.
What is Joseph Savino's base salary on record?: Joseph Savino's reported base salary is $169,174, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Joseph Savino has 21 years, 6 months of reported service.
How does Bergen County Sheriff's Department score on this site's report card?: This site's report card places Bergen County Sheriff's Department in the second-highest fifth of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Joseph Savino individually.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2040. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 243973, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩