Legal Question in Traffic Law in New Jersey

Pulled over on private property

Just a little confused. Today on my drive to work I was pulled over in the parking lot of my job. Here's the run down, hopefully someone can clear up the legality of the issue for me. As I exited the Garden State Parkway, exit 172, I entered Montvale NJ. As I exited, there was a town police car parked facing the opposite way in the middle of the road, monitoring traffic I'd imagine. As I drove by the officer, I could see in my rearview the brake lights go on, and he made a U-turn to follow me. As I came to my first light, there was one car behind my car, between myself and the police officer, this continued to the next light, where I made a left, and the officer followed with the one car buffer between us, no lights, not directly behind me. I then drove down the road to my job, made the right, drove into the parking lot, and when I went to park, he finally came up the driveway and threw his lights on.

My job is not in a mall, or a public place, it's a private corporation. Is there any legality behind the officer pulling me over on private property when he had not directly persued me prior to that moment?

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