Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Ronald McDowell

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 15 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 12. . C11: an employee. E1: Violations of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision. E2. Intentional abuse or misuse of authority or position.
Separated while IA pending: No

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

The Department of Corrections suspended Senior Correctional Police Officer Ronald McDowell for 15 days in 2024. On November 18, 2022, McDowell was arrested by the Millville Police Department after being found engaging in prostitution, and he was charged with engaging in prostitution as a patron. While being arrested, he repeatedly asked the officers for professional courtesy, told them he was a corrections officer, and said he knew the Millville police chief. McDowell signed a settlement agreement on January 3, 2024.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On November 18. 2022, Officer McDowell was arrested by the Millville Police Department after being found engaging in prostitution. Whilst being arrested, Officer McDowell repeatedly pleaded with the officer to not arrest him due to him being a corrections officer and stated that he knew the Millville Police Chief. He repeatedly asked the officers for "professional courtesy". He was subsequently charged with the following: N.J.S.A.2C:34-1B(1). Engaging in prostitution as a patron. Officer McDowell signed a settlement agreement on this matter on January 3, 2024.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $114,697
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 23 years, 9 months

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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 1368. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 216021, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩