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Chanel Johnson

Plainfield Police Department · 1 record · 2022

Suspended 125 days2022 · as reported

Detective Chanel Johnson was suspended for 125 days by the Plainfield Police Department on a charge listed as excessive noise. The record states that on 14 August 2021 Johnson was involved in an off-duty fight at a party in Hillside and was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer stemming from her interaction with a uniformed officer who responded to the scene. Johnson was suspended without pay from 13 June 2022 to 05 December 2022.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2022[1]

Suspended 125 days
Rank as reported
Detective (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
217-1 Excessive Noise
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On August 14, 2021, Detective Chanel Johnson was involved in an off duty incident (fight), while attending a party in Hillside, NJ. Subsequently, Detective Johnson was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer stemming from her interaction with a uniformed officer who responded to the scene. Detective Johnson was suspended without pay from 13 June 2022 to 05 Dec 2022.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

  • William Guy · Plainfield Police Department · 2022

    Suspended 107 days

    Sustained charge(s): Truthfulness

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Jason Pardo · Plainfield Police Department · 2025

    Suspended 15 days

    Sustained charge(s): Excessive Force

    same agency · similar sanction outcome

  • John Evans · Plainfield Police Department · 2024

    Suspended 35 days

    Sustained charge(s): Chain of Command/Performance of Duty/Obedience to Laws, Ordinances, Rules and General Orders/Managing Sick Leave

    same agency · similar sanction outcome

  • Michael Martinez · Plainfield Police Department · 2023

    Suspended (days not reported)

    Sustained charge(s): Indictable Offenses

    same agency · similar sanction outcome

  • Amber Williams · Plainfield Police Department · 2023

    Suspended 7 days

    Sustained charge(s): Performance of Duty, Obedience to Laws, Ordinances Rules and General Orders, Insubordination, Managing Sick Leave

    same agency · similar sanction outcome

Other officers at Plainfield Police Department

8 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis)
$107,468
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
7 years, 9 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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Chanel Johnson's major discipline record?

Detective Chanel Johnson was suspended for 125 days by the Plainfield Police Department on a charge listed as excessive noise. The record states that on 14 August 2021 Johnson was involved in an off-duty fight at a party in Hillside and was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer stemming from her interaction with a uniformed officer who responded to the scene. Johnson was suspended without pay from 13 June 2022 to 05 December 2022.

What is Chanel Johnson's major discipline record at Plainfield Police Department?

Chanel Johnson has one major discipline record at Plainfield Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Chanel Johnson's base salary on record?

Chanel Johnson's reported base salary is $107,468, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Chanel Johnson has 7 years, 9 months of reported service.

How large is Plainfield Police Department, the department Chanel Johnson worked for?

Plainfield Police Department reported 128 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Chanel Johnson individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2396. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 216905, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8612. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩