What is Michael Lembo's major discipline record at Ridgewood Village Police Department?

Michael Lembo has one major discipline record at Ridgewood Village Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

Does Michael Lembo's record show a termination?

The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Michael Lembo at Ridgewood Village Police Department.

What is Michael Lembo's base salary on record?

Michael Lembo's reported base salary is $216,278, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Michael Lembo has 22 years, 2 months of reported service.

How large is Ridgewood Village Police Department, the department Michael Lembo worked for?

Ridgewood Village Police Department reported 49 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 Lembo individually.

How does Ridgewood Village Police Department score on this site's report card?

This site's report card places Ridgewood Village Police Department in the second-lowest fifth of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Michael Lembo individually.

Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Michael Lembo

Ridgewood Village Police Department · 1 record · 2024

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

On October 7, 2023, a complaint alleged that Sgt. Lembo failed to perform his duties as the patrol supervisor during a missing persons call, Ridgewood PD reported. An investigation found that Lembo did not properly supervise the responding officers and did not properly investigate the report of the missing person. Lembo was suspended for 7 days.

About this data

Records on this page come from the Attorney General's major discipline releases: final, post-appeal discipline as reported by the employing agency. They are sustained charges, not allegations.
All figures are self-reported by agencies to the New Jersey Attorney General and shown as reported. Blank fields read "not reported," never "no."
Data is a yearly snapshot. Cases are not tracked across years, and major discipline appears only in the year it became final after all appeals.
In internal affairs data, allegations are not findings: many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
Any compensation figure below comes from New Jersey Treasury pension data, a separate source from the discipline records. It is matched to this officer by name and employing agency at high confidence, not by certified identity.

Full caveats and definitions: methodology. To request a correction against the official record: corrections.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 7 days

Rank as reported: Sergeant (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s): Performance of Duty
Separated while IA pending: not reported

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 10/7/2023, a complaint was made against Sgt. Lembo alleging he failed to perform his duties as the patrol supervisor during a missing persons call. An investigation was conducted and revealed that Sgt. Lembo did not properly supervise the responding officers and did not properly investigate the report of the missing person. Sgt. Lembo was suspended for 7 days.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $216,278
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 22 years, 2 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.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

Peter Youngberg · Ridgewood Village Police Department · 2020
Suspended 30 days
same agency · similar sanction outcome
Michael DiBona · Allenhurst Police Department · 2024
Suspended 30 days
Sustained charge(s): Prohibited activity on duty.
same year · similar sanction outcome
William Reng · Asbury Park Police Department · 2024
Suspended 5 days
Sustained charge(s): Body Worn Camera Policy Violation
same year · similar sanction outcome
Michael Vega · Atlantic City Police Department · 2024
Suspended 90 days
Sustained charge(s): Other Rule Violation; Prohibited Acts on-Duty & Other Rule Violation; Standards of Conduct
same year · similar sanction outcome
Warren Young · Atlantic City Police Department · 2024
Suspended (days not reported)
Sustained charge(s): Standards of Conduct / Obedience to Laws and Regulations / Other Criminal Violation - Domestic Violence
same year · similar sanction outcome

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Michael Lembo's major discipline record?: On October 7, 2023, a complaint alleged that Sgt. Lembo failed to perform his duties as the patrol supervisor during a missing persons call, Ridgewood PD reported. An investigation found that Lembo did not properly supervise the responding officers and did not properly investigate the report of the missing person. Lembo was suspended for 7 days.
What is Michael Lembo's major discipline record at Ridgewood Village Police Department?: Michael Lembo has one major discipline record at Ridgewood Village Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Michael Lembo's record show a termination?: The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Michael Lembo at Ridgewood Village Police Department.
What is Michael Lembo's base salary on record?: Michael Lembo's reported base salary is $216,278, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Michael Lembo has 22 years, 2 months of reported service.
How large is Ridgewood Village Police Department, the department Michael Lembo worked for?: Ridgewood Village Police Department reported 49 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 Lembo individually.
How does Ridgewood Village Police Department score on this site's report card?: This site's report card places Ridgewood Village Police Department in the second-lowest fifth of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Michael Lembo individually.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 887. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 227915, 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 8180. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩