A prisoner was placed into the secure holding facility to which Officer Ozriel Valentin was assigned, and Valentin failed to properly search the prisoner or the area, according to the Atlantic City Police Department. A knife was subsequently found in the cell where the prisoner was held. The department sustained a charge of Temporary Detention: Booking and Intake / Security and Control. Valentin was suspended for 30 days and received a monetary fine or loss of pay.
Temporary Detention: Booking and Intake / Security and Control
Other sanction
Monetary fine or loss of pay
Separated while IA pending
No
Synopsis as reported by the agency
A prisoner was placed into the secure holding facility. Officer Valentin, who was assigned to the secure facility, failed to search said prisoner or area properly. A knife was subsequently found in the cell where the prisoner was held.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Ozriel Valentin's major discipline record?
A prisoner was placed into the secure holding facility to which Officer Ozriel Valentin was assigned, and Valentin failed to properly search the prisoner or the area, according to the Atlantic City Police Department. A knife was subsequently found in the cell where the prisoner was held. The department sustained a charge of Temporary Detention: Booking and Intake / Security and Control. Valentin was suspended for 30 days and received a monetary fine or loss of pay.
What is Ozriel Valentin's major discipline record at Atlantic City Police Department?
Ozriel Valentin has one major discipline record at Atlantic City Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Ozriel Valentin's base salary on record?
Ozriel Valentin's reported base salary is $29,519, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Ozriel Valentin has 18 years, 2 months of reported service.
How large is Atlantic City Police Department, the department Ozriel Valentin worked for?
Atlantic City Police Department reported 295 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Ozriel Valentin individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 13. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 226792, 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 8112. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩