A Secaucus police officer was suspender 160 days last year after he held a grudge and looked to get even with a parking enforcement officer who issued him a street sweeper ticket, according to their 2025 Annual Major Discipline Report.
By Dan Israel/Hudson County View
Police Officer Michael Borrelli was suspended 160 days without pay for sustaining charges related to neglect of duty, obedience to laws, ordinances, rules, and written directives, providing false information, conduct toward other department employees, and criticism of officials acts or orders, among others, the report says.
“On April 14, 2025, Borrelli confronted a Secaucus parking enforcement officer while she was enforcing a street sweeping violation on his personal vehicle, attempting to use his position as a police officer to sway the officer from issuing a summons to issuing him a warning,” according to the report.
He also allegedly told other police officers that we would pull over the parking enforcement officer who ticketed his vehicle in both her private and work vehicles.
“The following day, Borrelli left his extra-duty traffic detail post unmanned and travelled in the police vehicle that was being used as an emergency warning device and interfered with the same parking enforcement officer, while she was performing her duties and enforcing a parking violation,” the incident description says.
“Also, during his interview for this internal affairs investigation, Borrelli provided false information.”
Borrelli was also previously suspended for 75 days without pay for two sustained charges of insubordination.
“On March 12, 2025 he was given an order by his immediate supervisor to review a case and either follow up with the Municipal Prosecutor or issue the summons requested by the Prosecutor,” the second incident description notes.
He did not ultimately did not follow up with the orders of his superior and therefore an investigation was opened.
In 2023, Borrelli was issued a 22-day suspension for submitting an overtime slip that allowed him to be paid for four hours he did not work, as HCV first reported.
The Jersey City, Hoboken, North Bergen, Union City, and Guttenberg Police Departments had a number of salacious suspensions, demotions, resignations and/or retirements after disciplinary actions were taken in 2025, while the Bayonne, West New York, Weehawken, and Harrison Police Departments had none.
The East Newark Police Department is not publicly available on the police department’s website.
Police disciplinary disclosures became mandatory following a 2020 directive from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.
As a result, all state enforcement agencies are technically required to post on their website by January 31st of each year, but many still just submit to the AG’s office via an online portal.
