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Michael Borrelli

Secaucus Police Department · 3 records · 2023, 2025

Suspended 160 daysmost recent record, 2025 · as reported

Borrelli has 3 sustained major discipline records from Secaucus PD, spanning 2023 to 2025. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Obedience to Laws, Ordinances, Rules and Written Directives [3:1.3], Reports [3:4.3] & All Other Conduct [3:7.15]; 1:4.9 - Insubordination 3:1.6 - Insubordination; 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 3:1.7 Providing False Information 3:1.8 Conduct Toward Other Department Employees 3:3.6 Criticism of Official Acts or Orders.

Discipline timeline, 2023 to 2025

AnalysisBar colour is this site's severity tier for the reported sanction.

3 records, 2023 to 2025

Major discipline records reported for Michael Borrelli, by year
YearRecordsMost serious sanction reported
20231Suspension
20240No record published
20252Suspension
  • Suspension

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Suspended 75 days

Plain-language summary

Written by this site from the cited record only.

The Secaucus Police Department suspended Police Officer Michael Borrelli for 75 days in 2025 and imposed a monetary fine or loss of pay. According to the record, on March 12, 2025, Borrelli was ordered by his immediate supervisor to review a case and either follow up with the municipal prosecutor or issue a requested summons. He failed to comply and knowingly did not perform the ordered duties. The sustained charge was insubordination.

Rank as reported
Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
1:4.9 - 3:1.6 -
Other sanction
Monetary fine or loss of pay
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On March 12, 2025 Police Officer Borrelli was given an order by his immediate supervisor to review a case and either follow up with the Municipal Prosecutor or issue the summons requested by the Prosecutor. Police Officer Borrelli failed to comply with the instructions of his supervisor and knowingly did not perform the duties he was ordered to do.

Major discipline · 2025[2]

Suspended 160 days

Plain-language summary

Written by this site from the cited record only.

The Secaucus Police Department suspended Police Officer Michael Borrelli for 160 days in 2025, with a monetary fine or loss of pay. The record states that on April 14, 2025, Borrelli confronted a parking enforcement officer enforcing a violation on his vehicle and used his position to sway her from a summons to a warning. The next day he left his extra-duty post unmanned and interfered with her while driving a police vehicle, and provided false information during his interview. Sustained charges included neglect of duty and providing false information.

Rank as reported
Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
  • 1:4.14 1:5.2 Code of Ethics 2:1.4(5) Police Officers 3:1.3 Obedience to Laws
  • Ordinances
  • Rules
  • and Written Directives 3:1.7 Providing False Information 3:1.8 Conduct Toward Other Department Employees 3:3.6 Criticism of Official Acts or Orders
Other sanction
Monetary fine or loss of pay
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On April 14, 2025 Police Officer Borrelli confronted a Secaucus Parking Enforcement Officer while she was enforcing a street sweeping violation on his personal vehicle. Police Officer Borrelli used his position as a police officer to sway the Parking Enforcement Officer from issuing a summons to issuing him a warning. Police Officer Borrelli informed another police officer that he would retaliate against the Parking Enforcement Officer and would pull her over while she was driving the Parking Enforcement vehicle. Furthermore, Police Officer Borrelli also made mention to another police officer that he knew what personal vehicle that the Parking Enforcement Officer drives and would conduct a motor vehicle stop on her. On April 15, 2025, the following day, Police Officer Borrelli left his extra-duty traffic detail post unmanned and travelled in the police vehicle that was being used as an emergency warning device and interfered with the same Parking Enforcement Officer, while she was performing her duties and enforcing a parking violation. Also, during his interview for this internal affairs investigation, Police Officer Borrelli provided false information.

Major discipline · 2023[3]

Suspended 22 days

Plain-language summary

Written by this site from the cited record only.

The Secaucus Police Department suspended Police Officer Michael Borrelli for 22 days in 2023 and noted loss of time. According to the record, on June 2, 2023, Borrelli submitted an overtime slip for an extra-duty job that falsely represented the time he actually performed the work, which allowed him to receive four hours of additional pay. The sustained charges were obedience to laws, reports, and all other conduct.

Rank as reported
Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
  • Obedience to Laws
  • Ordinances
  • Rules and Written Directives [3:1.3]
  • Reports [3:4.3] & All Other Conduct [3:7.15]
Other sanction
Loss of time
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On June 2, 2023 Detective Borrelli submitted an overtime slip for an Extra Duty Job that falsely represented the time he actually performed the work, which allowed him to get four hours additional pay based on that misrepresentation.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.
  • Julian Cuellar · Atlantic City Police Department · 2025

    Suspended 10 days

    Sustained charge(s): Relief, Performance of Duty, Neglect of Duty, Body Worn Camera

    same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome

  • Bria Hill · Atlantic City Police Department · 2025

    Suspended 60 days

    Sustained charge(s): Insubordination, Uniform Policy, Neglect of Duty, Truthfulness

    same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome

  • Richard Kirk · Bergen County Sheriff's Department · 2025

    Suspended 15 days

    Sustained charge(s): 4A:2-2.3(a) 1 - Incompetency, Inefficiency or Failure to Perform Duties 4A:2-2.3(a) 6 - Conduct Unbecoming a Public Employee 4A:2-2.3(a) 7

    same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome

  • Daniel Olmedo · Bergen County Sheriff's Department · 2025

    Suspended 124 days

    Sustained charge(s): 4A:2-2.3(a) 1 - Incompetency, Inefficiency or Failure to Perform Duties 4A:2-2.3(a) 6 - Conduct Unbecoming a Public Employee 4A:2-2.3(a) 7

    same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome

  • Keristan Lowe · Bridgeton Police Department · 2025

    Suspended 180 days

    Sustained charge(s): NJAC 4A2-2.3(a)1 - Incompetency, inefficiency, or failure to perform duties NJAC 4A:2-2.3(a)7 - Neglect of Duty

    same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome

Other officers at Secaucus Police Department

4 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Michael Borrelli's major discipline record?

Borrelli has 3 sustained major discipline records from Secaucus PD, spanning 2023 to 2025. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Obedience to Laws, Ordinances, Rules and Written Directives [3:1.3], Reports [3:4.3] & All Other Conduct [3:7.15]; 1:4.9 - Insubordination 3:1.6 - Insubordination; 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 3:1.7 Providing False Information 3:1.8 Conduct Toward Other Department Employees 3:3.6 Criticism of Official Acts or Orders.

What is Michael Borrelli's major discipline record at Secaucus Police Department?

Michael Borrelli has 3 major discipline records at Secaucus Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023, 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How large is Secaucus Police Department, the department Michael Borrelli 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 Michael Borrelli individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 401. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.
  2. [2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 402. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.
  3. [3]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1743. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.
  4. [4]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 401. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. The timeline counts rows 401, 402, 1743.
  5. [5]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/.