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.
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.
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What is a summary of Rolando Rodriguez's major discipline record?
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.
What is Rolando Rodriguez's major discipline record at Scotch Plains Police Department?
Rolando Rodriguez has one major discipline record at Scotch Plains Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Rolando Rodriguez's base salary on record?
Rolando Rodriguez's reported base salary is $130,990, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Rolando Rodriguez has 18 years, 1 month of reported service.
How large is Scotch Plains Police Department, the department Rolando Rodriguez worked for?
Scotch Plains Police Department reported 47 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Rolando Rodriguez individually.
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/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8616. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩