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Michael Sweeney

Q: What is Michael Sweeney's pension on record?

Michael Sweeney's reported monthly pension allowance is $7,771.62, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Michael Sweeney has 26 years, 3 months of reported service.

Somers Point Police Department · 1 record · 2020

Suspended 30 days2020 · as reported

Captain Michael Sweeney was suspended for 30 days by the Somers Point Police Department in 2020. The record states the suspension was for non-performance of duty, specifically for not properly handling interdepartmental reports. The agency did not list a separate sustained charge category beyond that account.

About this data

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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.
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Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2020^[1]

Suspended 30 days

Rank as reported: Captain (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s): not applicable
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Capt Sweeney was suspended for 30 days for Non Performance Of Duty specifically by not properly handling inter departmental reports.

Background: What a suspension actually means in New Jersey police discipline.

Similar records

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

Scott Ritter · Asbury Park Police Department · 2020
Suspended 40 days
same year · similar sanction outcome
Christopher Leahy · Asbury Park Police Department · 2020
Suspended 30 days
same year · similar sanction outcome
Tina Decicco · Atlantic County Corrections · 2020
Suspended 6 days
same year · similar sanction outcome
Charles Gill · Atlantic County Corrections · 2020
Suspended 6 days
same year · similar sanction outcome
Peter Wawrzonkiewicz · Atlantic County Corrections · 2020
Suspended 45 days
same year · similar sanction outcome

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $7,771.62
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $7,771.62
Final salary basis: $140,769
Retired: January 2021
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 26 years, 3 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 (matching name, exact employing agency, police-confirmed occupation, no competing candidate, and a scored match probability above the published floor; see the methodology), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Cite this page

Police Transparency NJ, "Michael Sweeney, Somers Point Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/michael-sweeney-somers-point-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.

Questions and answers

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

What is Michael Sweeney's major discipline record at Somers Point Police Department?

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

What is Michael Sweeney's pension on record?

Michael Sweeney's reported monthly pension allowance is $7,771.62, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Michael Sweeney has 26 years, 3 months of reported service.

How large is Somers Point Police Department, the department Michael Sweeney worked for?

Somers Point Police Department reported 29 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 Sweeney individually.

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Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2792. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 304096 (member 44256724), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8125. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩