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Sherika Salmon

Mercer County Prosecutor's Office · 1 record · 2024

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

Sergeant Sherika Salmon of the Mercer County Prosecutors Office was suspended for 30 days in 2024 on a sustained charge of neglect of duty. On or before June 5, 2023, Salmon failed to provide proper supervision of a subordinate Task Force Officer. That failure caused incorrect information to be submitted to the Superior Court in support of a court order.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2024[1]

Suspended 30 days
Rank as reported
Sergeant (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
Chapter IX Discipline 9:2c =
Separated while IA pending
not reported

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On, or before, June 5, 2023, Sergeant Sherika Salmon failed to provide proper supervision of a subordinate Task Force Officer. This failure to properly supervise, caused incorrect information to be submitted to the Superior Court in support of a court order.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis)
$150,116
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
12 years, 2 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.

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Questions and answers

What is a summary of Sherika Salmon's major discipline record?
Sergeant Sherika Salmon of the Mercer County Prosecutors Office was suspended for 30 days in 2024 on a sustained charge of neglect of duty. On or before June 5, 2023, Salmon failed to provide proper supervision of a subordinate Task Force Officer. That failure caused incorrect information to be submitted to the Superior Court in support of a court order.
What is Sherika Salmon's major discipline record at Mercer County Prosecutor's Office?
Sherika Salmon has one major discipline record at Mercer County Prosecutor's Office in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Sherika Salmon's record show a termination?
The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Sherika Salmon at Mercer County Prosecutor's Office.
What is Sherika Salmon's base salary on record?
Sherika Salmon's reported base salary is $150,116, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Sherika Salmon has 12 years, 2 months of reported service.
How large is Mercer County Prosecutor's Office, the department Sherika Salmon worked for?
Mercer County Prosecutor's Office reported 65 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Sherika Salmon individually.
How does Mercer County Prosecutor's Office score on this site's report card?
This site's report card places Mercer County Prosecutor's Office in the second-highest fifth of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Sherika Salmon individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1146. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.
  2. [2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 247540, 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 8386. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/.