Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Ryan Niemiec

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

About this data

Records on this page come from the Attorney General's major discipline releases: final, post-appeal discipline as reported by the employing agency. They are sustained charges, not allegations.
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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 30 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a) General Causes (6) a public employee (12) HRB 84-17, as amended C11- an employee. E1- Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision.
Separated while IA pending: No

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

On 6/23/24, Senior Correctional Police Officer Ryan Niemiec was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated by a New York State Trooper after being found unconscious beside his vehicle, the Dept Of Corrections reported. A breathalyzer test yielded a .18% blood alcohol content. Niemiec pled guilty on 1/13/25 and received a 90-day license suspension in New York effective 2/2/25. He signed a settlement agreement for a 30-day suspension on 11/24/25.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 6/23/24, New Jersey State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Ryan Niemiec was arrested and charged with Driving While Intoxicated by a New York State Trooper. SCPO Niemiec was observed unconscious by the side of his vehicle. A breathalyzer test was administered which yielded a .18% Blood Alcohol Content. He received the following citations: Driving while intoxicated-first offense, operating a motor vehicle with.08% of 1% alcohol or more in blood-first offense and aggravated DWI: BAC .18 of 1% or more alcohol in blood-no priors and moving from lane unsafely. SCPO Niemiec pled guilty on 1/13/25 and received a suspended license within the state of New York for 90 days effective 2/2/25. SCPO Niemiec signed a settlement agreement for a 30-day suspension on 11/24/25.

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: 15 years, 7 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 697. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213811, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩