On May 2, 2023, Officer Richard Gallagher failed to respond to an assignment, and a supervisor on scene made several unsuccessful attempts to locate him. Gallagher later contacted a supervisor by phone and said he was sleeping in the district house parking lot, and during his interview he admitted driving there to sleep because he was tired. The Camden PD gave him a 14-day suspension held in abeyance for one year and 90 days of monitoring by his commander.
Employer has investigated a violation of the Camden County Police Department’s Rules and Regulations involving Officer Richard Gallagher #948 under Internal Affairs case number 24-147. On May 2nd, 2023, Officer Gallagher failed to respond to an assignment. When a supervisor on scene observed that he was not there, several attempts were made to locate him with negative results. Officer Gallagher eventually contacted a supervisor via phone and when questioned about his whereabouts, he advised the supervisor that he was at the district house parking lot, sleeping. During his interview, Officer Gallagher admitted to driving to that location with the purpose of going to sleep due to being tired. Officer Gallagher was given a fourteen (14) day suspension held in abeyance for one year and 90 days monitoring by his Commander.
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What is a summary of Richard Gallagher's major discipline record?
On May 2, 2023, Officer Richard Gallagher failed to respond to an assignment, and a supervisor on scene made several unsuccessful attempts to locate him. Gallagher later contacted a supervisor by phone and said he was sleeping in the district house parking lot, and during his interview he admitted driving there to sleep because he was tired. The Camden PD gave him a 14-day suspension held in abeyance for one year and 90 days of monitoring by his commander.
What is Richard Gallagher's major discipline record at Camden Police Department?
Richard Gallagher has one major discipline record at Camden Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Richard Gallagher's base salary on record?
Richard Gallagher's reported base salary is $92,769, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Richard Gallagher has 6 years, 3 months of reported service.
How large is Camden Police Department, the department Richard Gallagher worked for?
Camden Police Department reported 359 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Richard Gallagher individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1006. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 244897, 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 8241. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩