Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Mark Panzano

Hopewell Township Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

DemotedSuspended 45 days

Rank as reported: Sergeant
Sustained charge(s)
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Sergeant Mark Panzano was suspended for 45 days and temporarily demoted to patrol officer for 3 months by the Hopewell Township Police Department in 2025. He divulged confidential information to a subordinate officer regarding officers' rankings in the promotional process, in violation of a direct order that the results were confidential. The internal affairs investigation resulted in a sustained finding on the charge of insubordination.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Sergeant Panzano was suspended for 45 days and temporarily demoted to the position of Patrol Officer for 3 months for divulging confidential information to a subordinate officer. The information was in regards officers rankings in the promotional process, in violation of a direct order given by a superior officer to all superivisors stating the results of the process were confidential. The internal affairs investigation resulted in a sustained finding on the charge of .

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $112,741
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 12 years, 10 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 417. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 242858, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩