Major discipline · 2025[1]
Suspended 15 days- Rank as reported
- Senior Correctional Police Officer (see this rank)
- Sustained charge(s)
- (a) General Causes (6) a public employee (7) (12) HRB 84-17
- as amended B2 -
- loafing
- idleness or willful failure to devote attention to tasks which could result in danger to persons or property B8 - Serious mistake due to carelessness which may result in danger and/or injury to persons/property C8 - Falsification: intentional misstatement of material fact in connection with work
- employment application
- attendance or in any record
- report
- investigation or other proceeding C11 - an employee D7 - Violation of administrative procedure and/or regulations involving safety and security E1 - Violation of a rule
- regulation
- policy
- procedure
- order or administrative decision
- Separated while IA pending
- No
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On 4/8/25, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Robert Tourre coordinated and participated in a social function on the grounds of Central Office Headquarters. SCPO Tourre did not obtain permission from his supervisor to participate in the social function. During the course of the investigation, SCPO Tourre knowingly provided the New Jersey Department of Correction’s Special Investigations Division with false information concerning the details about the social function. Finally, on a separate date, SCPO Tourre met with an outside party on the Garden State Correctional Facility grounds for approximately 20 minutes while SCPO Tourre was on duty and did not properly obtain permission from his supervisor to do so. SCPO Tourre signed a settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on 7/11/25.