of Public Employee: Members and employees shall conduct their private and professional lives in such a manner as to avoid bringing the department into disrepute.
Other sanction
Loss of time
Separated while IA pending
No
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Patrolman Podeszwa was terminated and suspended for 60 days by Mount Holly PD after an internal affairs investigation. The record states he failed to properly investigate cases, including misrepresenting a domestic matter as resolved to his supervisor when a restraining order should have been filed. Several reports were not completed on time and were deleted by Podeszwa from the police database to conceal the conduct, and the investigation found untruthfulness in his actions. The sustained charge was Conduct Unbecoming a Public Employee, with a loss of time.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Failed to properly invesitgate cases, specificially by misrepresnting a dometic matter as resolved to his supervisor when a restraining order should have been filed. After opening an IA investigation this department found several reports that were not completed in time and were deleted by Officer Podeszwa from the police data base in an attempted to concealed his wrongdoings. Investigation revealed untruthfulness in his actions.
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Patrolman Podeszwa was terminated and suspended for 60 days by Mount Holly PD following an internal affairs investigation. The record states he failed to properly investigate cases, including misrepresenting a domestic matter to his supervisor as resolved when a restraining order should have been filed. Several reports were not completed on time and were deleted by Podeszwa from the police database to conceal the conduct, and the investigation found untruthfulness. The sustained charge was Conduct Unbecoming a Public Employee.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Failed to properly invesitgate cases, specificially by misrepresnting a dometic matter as resolved to his supervisor when a restraining order should have been filed. After opening an IA investigation this department found several reports that were not completed in time and were deleted by Officer Podeszwa from the police data base in an attempted to concealed his wrongdoings. Investigation revealed untruthfulness in his actions.
Compensation and pension
No confident pension match found. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Where that bar is not met, nothing is shown rather than a guess. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1538. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2085. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩