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.
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 .
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Mark Panzano's major discipline record?
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.
What is Mark Panzano's major discipline record at Hopewell Township Police Department?
Mark Panzano has one major discipline record at Hopewell Township Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Mark Panzano's base salary on record?
Mark Panzano's reported base salary is $112,741, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Mark Panzano has 12 years, 10 months of reported service.
How large is Hopewell Township Police Department, the department Mark Panzano worked for?
Hopewell Township Police Department reported 32 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Mark Panzano individually.
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/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8375. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩