Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Kevin Coiro

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 60 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a) General Causes (12) HRB 84-17, as amended C11 - an employee E1 - Violation of rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision.
Separated while IA pending: No

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

On 5/16/23, Senior Correctional Police Officer Kevin Coiro was arrested by the Wayne Township Police Department for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. During the arrest, which was captured on body worn camera, Coiro became aggressive with the responding officers, repeatedly cursed at them, called them rookies, and did not cooperate. At the police station he refused a breathalyzer and was combative and evasive. Coiro signed a settlement agreement on 2/11/25 for a 60-day suspension.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 5/16/23, Northern State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Kevin Coiro was arrested by the Wayne Township Police Department for driving under the influence of drugs/alcohol. At the time of the arrest, SCPO Coiro became aggressive with the responding officers, which was captured on Body Worn Camera. SCPO Coiro repeatedly cursed at the Wayne Township Police officers, laughed at them, called them "rookies," and further failed to cooperate with law enforcement. At the police station, SCPO Coiro refused a breathalyzer. He was also combative and evasive. SCPO Coiro signed a settlement agreement on 2/11/25 for a 60-day suspension.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $96,313
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 7 years, 7 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 582. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213123, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩