Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Chad Szymanski

Jersey City Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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.
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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 · 2025^[1]

Suspended 90 days

Rank as reported: Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): ,
Other sanction: Loss of time
Separated while IA pending: No

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

In 2025, Jersey City PD sustained charges of excessive absenteeism against Police Officer Chad Szymanski. The record states Szymanski was absent from duty for an aggregate period of one (1) year in violation of contract or statute. Szymanski was suspended for 90 days and received a loss of time.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

P.O. C. Szymanski was absent from duty for an aggregate period of one (1) year in violation of contract/statute.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $115,943
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 12 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 (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 391. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 233568, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩