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Troy Hartsgrove

Q: What is Troy Hartsgrove's base salary on record?

Troy Hartsgrove's reported base salary is $136,203, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Troy Hartsgrove has 13 years, 3 months of reported service.

Highlands Police Department · 1 record · 2020

Suspended 30 days2020 · as reported

Patrol Officer Troy Hartsgrove was suspended for 30 days by the Highlands Police Department in 2020. The agency described the matter as rule violations involving social media. No formal sustained charge was reported, and the agency provided no further synopsis.

About this data

Records on this page come from the Attorney General's major discipline releases: final, post-appeal discipline as reported by the employing agency. They are sustained charges, not allegations.
All figures are self-reported by agencies to the New Jersey Attorney General and shown as reported. Blank fields read "not reported," never "no."
Data is a yearly snapshot. Cases are not tracked across years, and major discipline appears only in the year it became final after all appeals.
In internal affairs data, allegations are not findings: many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
Any compensation figure below comes from New Jersey Treasury pension data, a separate source from the discipline records. It is matched to this officer by name and employing agency at high confidence, not by certified identity.

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Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2020^[1]

Suspended 30 days

Rank as reported: Patrol Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s): not applicable
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Rule Violations, Social Media

Background: What a suspension actually means in New Jersey police discipline.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

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Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $136,203
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 13 years, 3 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 (matching name, exact employing agency, police-confirmed occupation, no competing candidate, and a scored match probability above the published floor; see the methodology), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Cite this page

Police Transparency NJ, "Troy Hartsgrove, Highlands Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/troy-hartsgrove-highlands-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Troy Hartsgrove's major discipline record?

What is Troy Hartsgrove's major discipline record at Highlands Police Department?

Troy Hartsgrove has one major discipline record at Highlands Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2020. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Troy Hartsgrove's base salary on record?

Troy Hartsgrove's reported base salary is $136,203, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Troy Hartsgrove has 13 years, 3 months of reported service.

How large is Highlands Police Department, the department Troy Hartsgrove worked for?

Highlands Police Department reported 0 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Troy Hartsgrove individually.

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Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2897. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 235416, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8432. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩