(a)(1) , or Failure to Perform Duties (a)(6) an Public Employee (a)(7) (a)(12) Obedience to Laws and Rules and Regulations Standards of Conduct Performance of Duty Unbecoming Conduct Prohibited Activity on Duty Inattentiveness to Duty
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Officer Matthew Dembinski, while on duty, failed to properly conduct security checks and was found to be in possession of his cellphone inside the secured area of the Bergen County Jail, the Bergen County Sheriffs Office reported for 2022. Dembinski was suspended for 15 days.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Officer Dembinski, while on duty, failed to properly conduct security checks and was found to be in possession of his cellphone inside the secured area of the Bergen County Jail.
Compensation and pension
No confident pension match found. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Where that bar is not met, nothing is shown rather than a guess. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2048. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩