Major discipline · 2023[1]
Terminated- Rank as reported
- Recruit
- Sustained charge(s)
- not reported
- Separated while IA pending
- not reported
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Recruit Michael Mancuso was terminated in connection with the Voorhees Township Police Department in 2023. Mancuso was attending the Gloucester County Police Academy and received a suspension for academy rule violations including insubordination, cheating or plagiarizing, conduct unbecoming a police recruit, dishonesty, and neglect of duty. The academy investigation found he plagiarized the first 3 pages of a 5 page paper and completed only 28 of 50 assigned repetitions of the Honor Code. After the suspension, his Conditional Notice of Employment with the department was rescinded.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Recruit Michael Mancuso was attending Gloucester County Police Academy. He received a suspension from GCPA for numerous Academy Rules and Regulations 3.2.11 (), 3.2.11 (cheating or plagiarizing), 3.2.41.1 ( a police recruit), 3.2.43 (dishonesty), 3.2.44.1 (). The suspension was a result of an academy investigation regarding Recruit Mancuso's submission of a 5 page paper in which the recruit admitted to plagarizing the first 3 pages of the assignment. On another occasion, the recruit also displayed deceptive behavior in failing to complete another assignment by only doing 28 of the 50 repetitions of the "Honor Code" that was assigned to him. The recruit was suspended from the academy. As a result of the suspension, Recruit Mancuso's Conditional Notice of Employment with the Voorhees Police Department was rescinded as he was not able to complete the requirements of the notice.