Suspended 30 daysmost recent record, 2024 · as reported
Petrov has 2 sustained major discipline records from Secaucus PD, all from 2024. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: 3:7.9 - Distracters; 3:7.14 - Prohibited Activity on Duty; 3:7.15 - All other Conduct; et. al; 3:1.3 - Obedience to Laws, Ordinances, Rules and Written Directives; 3:4.3 - Reports; et.al.
The Secaucus Police Department suspended Police Officer Kiril Petrov for 210 days in 2024. The record states that on November 20, 2023, while on duty, Petrov used an app on his personal cellphone to track a party protected under the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act through a GPS device he placed on her vehicle without her consent, the second time he had done so. The next day, off duty, he conducted covert surveillance of her for about 1.5 hours. The sustained charges included prohibited activity on duty.
On November 20, 2023, Police Officer Kiril Petrov, while on duty, utilized an application on his personal cellular telephone to electronically monitor the whereabouts and location of “a party protected under the prevention of Domestic Violence Act," via a GPS tracking device he placed on her personal vehicle, without her consent and/or knowledge. This is the second occasion that Police Officer Kiril Petrov placed a GPS tracking device on this party's vehicle to monitor her whereabouts and location. Self admittedly Police Officer Petrov observed her location remotely, at least five times, while he was on duty on November 20, 2023, presumably distracting him from performing his legitimate police duties. After completing his shift, Police Officer Petrov utilized the GPS location to locate the party. Now November 21, 2023, Police Officer Petrov, while off-duty, conducted covert surveillance and physically observed this party in North Bergen, NJ for approximately 1.5 hours. Police Officer Petrov then surveilled a male associate of the party and followed him at high rates of speed until he and Police Officer Petrov confronted one another in Bergen County, NJ.
In 2024, the Secaucus Police Department suspended Police Officer Kiril Petrov for 30 days and imposed a monetary fine or loss of pay. According to the record, on November 14, 2023, Petrov submitted an overtime slip for an extra-duty job that falsely represented the time he actually performed the work, which allowed him to receive 1.5 hours of additional pay. The sustained charges were obedience to laws and reports.
3:1.3 - Obedience to Laws, Ordinances, Rules and Written Directives
3:4.3 - Reports
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Other sanction
Monetary fine or loss of pay
Separated while IA pending
No
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On November 14, 2023 Police Officer Petrov submitted an overtime slip for an Extra Duty Job that falsely represented the time he actually performed the work, which allowed him to get 1.5 hours additional pay based on that misrepresentation.
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Sustained charge(s): 1:4.14 Neglect of Duty 1:5.2 Code of Ethics 2:1.4(5) Police Officers 3:1.3 Obedience to Laws, Ordinances, Rules, and Written Directives…
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.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Kiril Petrov's major discipline record?
Petrov has 2 sustained major discipline records from Secaucus PD, all from 2024. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: 3:7.9 - Distracters; 3:7.14 - Prohibited Activity on Duty; 3:7.15 - All other Conduct; et. al; 3:1.3 - Obedience to Laws, Ordinances, Rules and Written Directives; 3:4.3 - Reports; et.al.
What is Kiril Petrov's major discipline record at Secaucus Police Department?
Kiril Petrov has 2 major discipline records at Secaucus Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Kiril Petrov's base salary on record?
Kiril Petrov's reported base salary is $125,150, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Kiril Petrov has 11 years, 5 months of reported service.
How large is Secaucus Police Department, the department Kiril Petrov worked for?
Secaucus Police Department reported 79 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Kiril Petrov individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1131. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1132. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 222450, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[4]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8346. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩