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Richard Rispoli

Morristown Police Department · 1 record · 2025

Suspended 9 days2025 · as reported

Officer Richard Rispoli was charged on October 9, 2024, with neglect of duty and other sufficient causes covering five rule violations. A hearing officer sustained four charges: being absent without leave on April 9, 2024, by leaving work early without approval; entering an inaccurate overtime record on April 10, 2024; improperly leaving an extra-duty job site on April 11, 2024; and an unnecessary absence from an extra-duty post the same day by changing assignments without approval. The Morristown PD imposed a suspension of 9 days on Rispoli.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Suspended 9 days
Rank as reported
Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
  • (a)
  • (7) and (12)
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On October 9, 2024, Officer Richard Rispoli was charged with and Other Sufficient Causes, pertaining to five violations of the Bureau of Police Rules and Regulations, for which a twelve-day suspension was sought. Following a disciplinary hearing that concluded on March 21, 2025, the Hearing Officer sustained the following charges: (1) - for being absent without leave on April 9, 2024, specifically by leaving work early without approval; (2) Reports - for entering, or causing to be entered, inaccurate, false, or improper information into Bureau of Police records on April 10, 2024, specifically by entering an inaccurate record for an overtime assignment; (3) - for failing to conform to the Bureau of Police’s standard operating procedures (Extra Duty) on April 11, 2024, specifically by improperly leaving an extra duty job site; and (4) - for unnecessary absence from an extra-duty post on April 11, 2024, specifically by changing job assignments without approval resulting in additional overtime costs to be incurred. As a result, the Hearing Officer concluded that Officer Rispoli’s disciplinary history and demonstrated pattern of misconduct required major discipline and imposed a nine-day suspension.

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Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis)
$127,851
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
23 years, 8 months

How to read this

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Questions and answers

What is a summary of Richard Rispoli's major discipline record?

Officer Richard Rispoli was charged on October 9, 2024, with neglect of duty and other sufficient causes covering five rule violations. A hearing officer sustained four charges: being absent without leave on April 9, 2024, by leaving work early without approval; entering an inaccurate overtime record on April 10, 2024; improperly leaving an extra-duty job site on April 11, 2024; and an unnecessary absence from an extra-duty post the same day by changing assignments without approval. The Morristown PD imposed a suspension of 9 days on Rispoli.

What is Richard Rispoli's major discipline record at Morristown Police Department?

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

What is Richard Rispoli's base salary on record?

Richard Rispoli's reported base salary is $127,851, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Richard Rispoli has 23 years, 8 months of reported service.

How large is Morristown Police Department, the department Richard Rispoli worked for?

Morristown Police Department reported 64 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 Rispoli individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 487. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 229074, 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 8489. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩