Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Rolando Rodriguez

Scotch Plains Police Department · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 5 days

Rank as reported: Patrolman
Sustained charge(s): Sleeping on duty, and BWC violation
Separated while IA pending: No

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

The Scotch Plains Police Department suspended Patrolman Rolando Rodriguez for 5 days in 2024. The record states that on July 30, 2024, Rodriguez was in a single-car accident in a marked police vehicle that damaged private property. His body-worn camera activated on impact and captured the 30 seconds beforehand, which show him fully reclined and out of frame before he sat up and struck a sign in a church parking lot. The sustained charges were sleeping on duty, neglect of duty, and a body-worn camera violation.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 07/30/2024 Officer Rodriguez was involved in a single car motor vehicle accident in a marked police vehicle which resulted in damage private property. When the incident was looked into it was discovered that Rodriguez's BWC activated from the impact of the accident which captured 30 seconds prior to the accident which show Rodriguez fully reclined in the front seat of his patrol vehicle out of frame. The flash from an alarm can be seen and then Rodriguez begins to sit up and put the vehicle in drive. He subsequently struck a sign in the church parking lot. GPS data was obtained through county dispatch showing that Rodriguez had been parked in that spot for 1 hour and 15 minutes, and 2 other spots for 1 hour and 22 minutes and 1 hour and 35 minutes. Rodriguez's BWC was not on his person in patrol car.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $130,990
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 18 years, 1 month

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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 1452. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 230993, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩