Loyalty to the Department, Performance of Duty, , Odedience to Regulations, Knowingly Making False Entry into Department Record, , Refusal to Obey Order from a Supervisor,
Separated while IA pending
No
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Roselle PD reported that Officer Ortiz refused to report for a mandated patrol overtime shift, failing to follow an order from a supervisor. He also provided false information when he said he was too far from home to report, when he was in fact at his residence within Roselle at the time. Ortiz received a 28 day suspension.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Officer Ortiz failed to follow an order from a supervisor when he refused to report for a mandated patrol overtime shift. In addition, he provided false information to the supervisor when he indicated he was too far from home to report for the shift, when in fact he was at his residence within Roselle at the time of the conversation. He was given a 28 day suspension as a result of the incident.
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 1450. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 220217, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩