The Lodi Police Department suspended Officer Miguel Perez for 30 days in 2025. According to the department, Perez was on patrol on Route 46 and passed a disabled vehicle without stopping to render aid, activating emergency lights or sirens, or promptly notifying dispatch of the vehicle or its location. Seconds later, the disabled vehicle was struck by another car, causing serious injuries to occupants of both vehicles. The sustained charges were failure to perform duties, neglect of duty, and other sufficient cause.
Officer Perez was on patrol on Rt 46 and passed a disabled vehicle without stopping to render aid, activating emergency lights/sirens or promptly notifying dispatch of the vehicle or its location. Seconds later, the disabled vehicle was struck by another car resulting in serious injuries to occupants of both vehicles.
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What is a summary of Miguel Perez's major discipline record?
The Lodi Police Department suspended Officer Miguel Perez for 30 days in 2025. According to the department, Perez was on patrol on Route 46 and passed a disabled vehicle without stopping to render aid, activating emergency lights or sirens, or promptly notifying dispatch of the vehicle or its location. Seconds later, the disabled vehicle was struck by another car, causing serious injuries to occupants of both vehicles. The sustained charges were failure to perform duties, neglect of duty, and other sufficient cause.
What is Miguel Perez's major discipline record at Lodi Police Department?
Miguel Perez has one major discipline record at Lodi Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Miguel Perez's base salary on record?
Miguel Perez's reported base salary is $145,227, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Miguel Perez has 21 years, 6 months of reported service.
How large is Lodi Police Department, the department Miguel Perez worked for?
Lodi Police Department reported 57 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Miguel Perez individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 78. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 235229, 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 8160. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩