Lieutenant Nicole Stivale was suspended for 30 days by the Westfield Police Department in 2023. The agency reported that on January 29, 2021, Stivale was involved with the issuance of an emergency suspension of a patrol officer. A subsequent internal investigation found that the employee was improperly suspended, resulting in a sustained neglect of duty charge. The investigation also found that Stivale issued orders that directly contradicted the Chief of Police, which sustained an insubordination charge.
On January 29, 2021, Lieutenant Nicole Stivale was involved with the issuance of an emergency suspension of a patrol officer. A subsequent internal investigation revealed that the employee was improperly suspended, resulting in sustained charges. Furthermore, the internal investigation revealed that Lieutenant Nicole Stivale issued orders that directly contradicted the Chief of Police, resulting in sustained charges.
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What is a summary of Nicole Stivale's major discipline record?
Lieutenant Nicole Stivale was suspended for 30 days by the Westfield Police Department in 2023. The agency reported that on January 29, 2021, Stivale was involved with the issuance of an emergency suspension of a patrol officer. A subsequent internal investigation found that the employee was improperly suspended, resulting in a sustained neglect of duty charge. The investigation also found that Stivale issued orders that directly contradicted the Chief of Police, which sustained an insubordination charge.
What is Nicole Stivale's major discipline record at Westfield Police Department?
Nicole Stivale has one major discipline record at Westfield Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Nicole Stivale's pension on record?
Nicole Stivale's reported monthly pension allowance is $6,036.50, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Nicole Stivale has 20 years, 4 months of reported service.
How large is Westfield Police Department, the department Nicole Stivale worked for?
Westfield Police Department reported 63 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Nicole Stivale individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1999. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 344545 (member 44321548), 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 8620. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩