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Paul Rinck

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

Suspended 15 days2025 · as reported

On July 10, 2025, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility Senior Correctional Police Officer Paul Rinck failed to author Special Custody Reports involving a use-of-force incident with an incarcerated person, the Department of Corrections reported. Rinck admitted that he did not author the required reports and failed to contact his supervisor about the incident. He signed a settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on October 2, 2025.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Suspended 15 days
Rank as reported
Senior Correctional Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
  • (a) General Causes (6) a public employee (7) (12) HRB 84-17
  • as amended B8 - Serious mistake due to carelessness which may result in danger and/or injury to persons/property D7 - Violation of administrative procedure and/or regulations involving safety and security
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

A Special Investigations Division investigation revealed that on 7/10/25, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Paul Rinck failed to author Special Custody Reports involving a use-of-force incident with an incarcerated person. SCPO Rinck admitted that he did not author the required reports and failed to contact his supervisor about the incident. SCPO Rinck signed a settlement agreement for 15-day suspension on 10/2/25.

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Other officers at Department Of Corrections

433 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

All 433 at the Department Of Corrections page

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis)
$74,117
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
2 years, 6 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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Paul Rinck's major discipline record?

On July 10, 2025, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility Senior Correctional Police Officer Paul Rinck failed to author Special Custody Reports involving a use-of-force incident with an incarcerated person, the Department of Corrections reported. Rinck admitted that he did not author the required reports and failed to contact his supervisor about the incident. He signed a settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on October 2, 2025.

What is Paul Rinck's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?

Paul Rinck has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Paul Rinck's base salary on record?

Paul Rinck's reported base salary is $74,117, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Paul Rinck has 2 years, 6 months of reported service.

How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Paul Rinck worked for?

Department Of Corrections reported 4,741 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 Rinck individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 729. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 215543, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8641. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩