Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Richard Rispoli

Morristown Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 9 days

Rank as reported: Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a), (7) and (12)
Separated while IA pending: No

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

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.

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.

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

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.

Sources

[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]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/. ↩