Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Oscar Torres

Rutgers University Police Department · 2 records · 2023

About this data

Records on this page come from the Attorney General's major discipline releases: final, post-appeal discipline as reported by the employing agency. They are sustained charges, not allegations.
All figures are self-reported by agencies to the New Jersey Attorney General and shown as reported. Blank fields read "not reported," never "no."
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.
Any compensation figure below comes from New Jersey Treasury pension data, a separate source from the discipline records. It is matched to this officer by name and employing agency at high confidence, not by certified identity.

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Major discipline · 2023^[1]

Suspended 30 days

Rank as reported: Officer
Sustained charge(s): Standards of Conduct
Separated while IA pending: No

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Rutgers University PD reported that while on duty, Officer Torres threw his flashlight at a speeding motor vehicle after an unsuccessful attempt to slow the vehicle by appropriate means, which resulted in damage to the vehicle. Torres also failed to notify a supervisor about the action within a reasonable timeframe. He received a 30 day suspension.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

While on duty, Officer Oscar Torres threw his flashlight at a speeding motor vehicle, following an unsuccessful attempt to slow the vehicle by appropriate means, which resulted in damage to the vehicle. Officer Torres failed to notify a supervisor regarding this action in a reasonable time frame.

Major discipline · 2023^[2]

Suspended 6 days

Rank as reported: Officer
Sustained charge(s): Standards of Conduct
Separated while IA pending: No

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Rutgers University PD reported that Officer Torres, while off-duty, engaged in inappropriate communication with his tenant by providing the civilian false and misleading information, to the discredit of the agency. The sustained charge was a standards of conduct violation, and Torres received a 6 day suspension.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer Torres, in an off-duty capacity, engaged in inappropriate communication with his tenant at the discredit of the agency by providing the civilian false, and misleading information.

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[3]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $5,999.53
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $5,999.53
Final salary basis: $110,477
Retired: February 2025
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 25 years, 2 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 (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1968. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1969. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 364017 (member 44354437), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩