Suspended 15 daysmost recent record, 2025 · as reported
McGinnis has 2 sustained major discipline records from Parsippany-Troy Hills PD, spanning 2022 to 2025. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Neglect of Duty; Neglect of Duty/Failure to Exercise Necessary Control over Subordinates.
Discipline timeline, 2022 to 2025
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2 records, 2022 to 2025
Major discipline records reported for Ralph McGinnis, by year
On December 27, 2022, despite hearing radio traffic that subordinate officers were pursuing a vehicle in violation of departmental rules and laws, Sgt. McGinnis failed to take supervisory action or order his officers to end the unauthorized pursuit, the Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department reported. The conduct was finalized in 2025. McGinnis was suspended for 15 days, forfeited 8 vacation days, and was removed from the active promotional list for the rank of Lieutenant.
/Failure to Exercise Necessary Control over Subordinates
Other sanction
Loss of time
Separated while IA pending
No
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On December 27, 2022, despite receiving and hearing radio traffic which indicated that subordinate officers were pursuing a vehicle in violation of departmental rules, regulations and laws, Sgt. McGinnis failed to conduct any supervisory actions. Specifically, Sgt. McGinnis failed to order his subordinate officers to terminate the unauthorized pursuit, as is his duty. The conduct occurred in 2022, but was finalized in 2025. Discipline imposed: Sergeant McGinnis was suspended for fifteen (15) days, Sgt. McGinnis forfeited eight (8) vacation days, and Sergeant McGinnis was removed from the active promotional list for the rank of Lieutenant.
In 2022, Sgt. McGinnis was suspended for 20 days by the Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department for failing to conduct a missing person investigation in accordance with the applicable departmental standard operating procedure. The department reported neglect of duty as the sustained charge.
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 Ralph McGinnis's major discipline record?
McGinnis has 2 sustained major discipline records from Parsippany-Troy Hills PD, spanning 2022 to 2025. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Neglect of Duty; Neglect of Duty/Failure to Exercise Necessary Control over Subordinates.
What is Ralph McGinnis's major discipline record at Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department?
Ralph McGinnis has 2 major discipline records at Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022, 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Ralph McGinnis's base salary on record?
Ralph McGinnis's reported base salary is $172,602, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Ralph McGinnis has 15 years, 10 months of reported service.
How large is Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department, the department Ralph McGinnis worked for?
Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department reported 98 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Ralph McGinnis individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 490. 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 2272. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 490. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. The timeline counts rows 490, 2272. ↩
[4]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 235603, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8494. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩