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.
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.
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 (matching name, exact employing agency, police-confirmed occupation, no competing candidate, and a scored match probability above the published floor; see the methodology), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.
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Police Transparency NJ, "Chanel Johnson, Plainfield Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/chanel-johnson-plainfield-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
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]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]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]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/. ↩