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Richard Meinsen

Q: What is Richard Meinsen's pension on record?

Richard Meinsen's reported monthly pension allowance is $5,111.17, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Richard Meinsen has 23 years, 10 months of reported service.

South Bound Brook Police Department · 1 record · 2020

Suspended 19 days2020 · as reported

Sergeant Meinsen was suspended for 19 days by the South Bound Brook Police Department in 2020, a period the record equates to 228 hours of compensatory time. The record states the discipline was for misuse of departmental computers. No sustained charges were separately listed by the agency.

About this data

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Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2020^[1]

Suspended 19 days

Rank as reported: Sergeant (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s): not applicable
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Sgt. Meinsen was suspended for 19 days (228 hours of comp. time) for misuse of departmental computers.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

Scott Ritter · Asbury Park Police Department · 2020
Suspended 40 days
same year · similar sanction outcome
Christopher Leahy · Asbury Park Police Department · 2020
Suspended 30 days
same year · similar sanction outcome
Tina Decicco · Atlantic County Corrections · 2020
Suspended 6 days
same year · similar sanction outcome
Charles Gill · Atlantic County Corrections · 2020
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same year · similar sanction outcome
Peter Wawrzonkiewicz · Atlantic County Corrections · 2020
Suspended 45 days
same year · similar sanction outcome

Other officers at South Bound Brook Police Department

One other named officer with a reported major discipline record at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

Officer Paul Romano1 record, latest 2022

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $5,111.17
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $5,111.17
Final salary basis: $122,668
Retired: May 2021
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 23 years, 10 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 Richard Meinsen's major discipline record?

What is Richard Meinsen's major discipline record at South Bound Brook Police Department?

Richard Meinsen has one major discipline record at South Bound Brook Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2020. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Richard Meinsen's pension on record?

Richard Meinsen's reported monthly pension allowance is $5,111.17, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Richard Meinsen has 23 years, 10 months of reported service.

How large is South Bound Brook Police Department, the department Richard Meinsen worked for?

South Bound Brook Police Department reported 13 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 Meinsen individually.

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Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2929. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 309905 (member 44267582), 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 8583. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩