Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Bethesda Stokes

Trenton Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 5 days

Rank as reported: Lieutenant
Sustained charge(s): (a)12 , TPD Rule 3:1.5(a) Performance of Duty Official Or , Rule 3:1.7 Obedience to Laws, Ordinances, Rules, and General Orders
Separated while IA pending: No

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Lieutenant Bethesda Stokes was suspended for 5 days by the Trenton Police Department in 2025. Stokes ordered a lower ranking officer from another bureau to turn over their issued police vehicle to her without any authorization from the Police Director or his designee. The sustained charges included Other Sufficient Cause and Obedience to Laws, Ordinances, Rules, and General Orders.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Lieutenant Stokes ordered a lower ranking officer from another bureau to turn over their issued police vehicle to her without any authorization from the Police Director or his designee.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $182,380
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 27 years, 10 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 (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 430. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 229641, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩