Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Timothy Otero

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2022

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Major discipline · 2022^[1]

Suspended 30 days

Rank as reported: Sr. Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): 1. Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

The Dept Of Corrections suspended Senior Correctional Police Officer Timothy Otero for 30 days in 2022 for violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision. According to the record, Otero was involved in an altercation with an inmate and used excessive force.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer Otero was involved in altercation with inmate and used excessive force.

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: 18 years, 1 month

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 2344. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 215501, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩