, , or failure to perform duties / Failed to obtain PTC certification as required by statute.
Separated while IA pending
No
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Peguy Celissaint, a Correctional Police Officer recruit with the Middlesex County Department of Corrections, was terminated in 2025 after being removed from the Hudson County Police Academy. The agency reported that Celissaint failed to meet the minimum firearms proficiency standards set by the Police Training Commission and did not receive the certification required under his preemployment conditions. The sustained charge was incompetency, inefficiency, or failure to perform duties.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
CPO Recruit Celissaint was terminated due to as he was removed from the Hudson County Police Academy after failing to meet the minimum requirements of the firearms proficiency standards set forth by the Police Training Commission and did not receive the certification required per his preemployment conditions.
Compensation and pension
No confident pension match found. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Where that bar is not met, nothing is shown rather than a guess. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 434. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩