Suspended 6 daysSeparated while IA pending2025 · as reported
Lieutenant Paul Meixner was suspended for 6 days by the Manville Police Department in 2025 and lost time. On April 29, 2025, Meixner was charged with and pleaded guilty to 6 departmental violations regarding improper handling of a firearm and misconduct. According to the department, he possessed and handled a shotgun while seated at his desk in the presence of a civilian employee and physically manipulated the action on the shotgun.
Manville Rules and Regulations: Violation of Lieutenant Responsibilities
Violation of Professional Conduct
Violation of Duty Responsibilites
Violation of Handling of Firearms
Violation of Firearms Safety
Violation of Misconduct
Other sanction
Loss of time
Separated while IA pending
Yes
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On April 29, 2025 Lieutenant Paul Meixner was charged and plead guilty to 6 Departmental Violations regarding improper handling of a firearm and misconduct pursuant to Manville Police Department Rules and Regulations / Policies and Procedures. It was determined that Lieutenant Paul Meixner, possessed and handled a shotgun while sitting at his desk in side of his officer in the presence of a civilian employee and physically manipulated the action on the shotgun. Lieutenant Meixner was suspended for 6 days as a result of the investigation.
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 (matching name, exact employing agency, police-confirmed occupation, no competing candidate, and a scored match probability above the published floor; see the methodology), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.
Cite this page
Police Transparency NJ, "Paul Meixner, Manville Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/paul-meixner-manville-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Paul Meixner's major discipline record?
Lieutenant Paul Meixner was suspended for 6 days by the Manville Police Department in 2025 and lost time. On April 29, 2025, Meixner was charged with and pleaded guilty to 6 departmental violations regarding improper handling of a firearm and misconduct. According to the department, he possessed and handled a shotgun while seated at his desk in the presence of a civilian employee and physically manipulated the action on the shotgun.
What is Paul Meixner's major discipline record at Manville Police Department?
Paul Meixner has one major discipline record at Manville Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Paul Meixner's pension on record?
Paul Meixner's reported monthly pension allowance is $10,163.88, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Paul Meixner has 35 years, 9 months of reported service.
How large is Manville Police Department, the department Paul Meixner worked for?
Manville Police Department reported 25 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Paul Meixner individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 524. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 364701 (member 44356328), 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 8577. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩