Suspended 60 daysSeparated while IA pending2023 · as reported
The Allendale Police Department reported that Police Officer Victor Bartoloma was charged with Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution, a second degree crime under N.J.S.A. 2C:29-3A(5), for an incident on or about January 15, 2023 in the Village of Ridgewood. The charge involved false statements to a law enforcement officer investigating a motor vehicle crash that occurred while Bartoloma was off duty. Bartoloma was suspended for 60 days and resigned while the internal affairs investigation was pending.
Police Officer Bartoloma was charged with Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution, a second degree crime in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:29-3A(5), for an incident that occurred on or about January 15, 2023, in the Village of Ridgewood. Officer Bartoloma was charged with making false statement(s) to a law enforcement officer who was investigating a motor vehicle crash that occurred while PO Bartoloma was off duty. It was alleged that he told a police officer that he was the driver of a vehicle involved in a motor vehicle accident, knowing that he was not the driver and that he had provided the driver with a vehicle to leave the scene of the accident. PO Bartoloma resigned while IA investigation was pending.
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Compensation and pension
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Victor Bartoloma's major discipline record?
The Allendale Police Department reported that Police Officer Victor Bartoloma was charged with Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution, a second degree crime under N.J.S.A. 2C:29-3A(5), for an incident on or about January 15, 2023 in the Village of Ridgewood. The charge involved false statements to a law enforcement officer investigating a motor vehicle crash that occurred while Bartoloma was off duty. Bartoloma was suspended for 60 days and resigned while the internal affairs investigation was pending.
What is Victor Bartoloma's major discipline record at Allendale Police Department?
Victor Bartoloma has one major discipline record at Allendale Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Allendale Police Department, the department Victor Bartoloma worked for?
Allendale Police Department reported 15 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Victor Bartoloma individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1496. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8130. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩