Patrol Officer Nicholas Della Fera was suspended for 45 days by the Franklin Borough Police Department in 2024. The record states that on February 23, 2024, Della Fera conducted a motor vehicle stop, cleared without addressing a registration suspension flagged by a supervisor, provided false information about the vehicle registration and modified the Computer-Aided Dispatch entry to match his statement. As part of a settlement he pled guilty to a reports rule; the suspension included a 30-day forfeiture of accrued time and 15 days held in abeyance.
On 2/23/24, while on duty, Officer Della Fera conducted a motor vehicle stop due to an inoperable headlight. The on-duty supervisor determined that the vehicle registration was also suspended and notified Officer Della Fera of the additional violation via mobile data terminal message. Officer Della Fera subsequently cleared from the stop without addressing the suspension violation and stated to his supervisor that the vehicle registration he initially reported to dispatch during the stop did not correspond to the actual vehicle he had pulled over. Subsequently, it was determined that Officer Della Fera had provided false information to his supervisor and modified the vehicle registration listed in the Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) entry to match his false statement. Following an internal affairs investigation, the above-listed administrative charges against Officer Della Fera were sustained. As part of a settlement agreement with the Borough of Franklin, Della Fera pled guilty to Rule 3:4.3 – Reports and received a 45-day suspension, consisting of a 30-day forfeiture of accrued time and 15 days held in abeyance.
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What is a summary of Nicholas Della Fera's major discipline record?
Patrol Officer Nicholas Della Fera was suspended for 45 days by the Franklin Borough Police Department in 2024. The record states that on February 23, 2024, Della Fera conducted a motor vehicle stop, cleared without addressing a registration suspension flagged by a supervisor, provided false information about the vehicle registration and modified the Computer-Aided Dispatch entry to match his statement. As part of a settlement he pled guilty to a reports rule; the suspension included a 30-day forfeiture of accrued time and 15 days held in abeyance.
What is Nicholas Della Fera's major discipline record at Franklin Borough Police Department?
Nicholas Della Fera has one major discipline record at Franklin Borough Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Franklin Borough Police Department, the department Nicholas Della Fera worked for?
Franklin Borough Police Department reported 18 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Nicholas Della Fera individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1427. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8590. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩