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Shanica Martin

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

Suspended 15 days2024 · as reported

Correctional Police Sergeant Shanica Martin was suspended for 15 days by the Dept Of Corrections. On November 16, 2023, Martin was involved in a cell extraction for an incarcerated person who refused to exit a cell. In violation of policy, Martin failed to wait for an Internal Affairs investigator and instead ordered the person placed in handcuffs and forcibly removed from the cell. The sustained charge was violation of administrative procedures involving safety and security.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2024[1]

Suspended 15 days
Rank as reported
Correctional Police Sergeant (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 12. D7: Violation of administrative procedures and/or regulations involving safety and security.
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On November 16, 2023 Sgt. Martin was involved in a cell extraction for an Incarcerated Person who refused to exit their cell. In violation of policy, Sgt. Martin failed to wait for an Internal Affairs Investigator and proceeded to order the Incarcerated Person to be placed in handcuffs and forcibly removed from the cell.

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Other officers at Department Of Corrections

433 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

All 433 at the Department Of Corrections page

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis)
$125,972
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
19 years, 8 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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Shanica Martin's major discipline record?

Correctional Police Sergeant Shanica Martin was suspended for 15 days by the Dept Of Corrections. On November 16, 2023, Martin was involved in a cell extraction for an incarcerated person who refused to exit a cell. In violation of policy, Martin failed to wait for an Internal Affairs investigator and instead ordered the person placed in handcuffs and forcibly removed from the cell. The sustained charge was violation of administrative procedures involving safety and security.

What is Shanica Martin's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?

Shanica Martin has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Shanica Martin's base salary on record?

Shanica Martin's reported base salary is $125,972, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Shanica Martin has 19 years, 8 months of reported service.

How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Shanica Martin worked for?

Department Of Corrections reported 4,741 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Shanica Martin individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1379. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 214226, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8641. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩