Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Charles Conover

Long Branch Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 20 days

Rank as reported: Sergeant
Sustained charge(s): 1. Violation of Department Rule and Reg III A.1(d) Failure to detect and arrest violators of the law 2. Violation of Department Rule and Reg IV.A.1 Failure to promptly perform duties as required 3. Violation of Department Rule and Reg Appendix A (Cooperation): Failure to maintain a good spirit of cooperation between the ranks.
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Sergeant Charles Conover was suspended for 20 days by the Long Branch Police Department in 2025. On August 5, 2024, Conover failed to perform the duties of his position, failing to take proper action and causing subordinates to take improper action during a burglary investigation that resulted in the suspect being released at the scene. He also made defamatory statements about a subordinate to other subordinates. The sustained charges included failure to promptly perform duties and failure to maintain cooperation between the ranks.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On August 5, 2024, Sgt. Conover failed to perform the duties associated with his position. Sgt. Conover knowingly failed to take proper action and caused subordinates to take improper action during of a burglary investigation. As result of the burglary investigation the suspect was released at the scene. Sgt. Conover further failed to maintain a good spirit of cooperation by making defamatory statements about a subordinate to other subordinates.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $171,686
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 8 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.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 463. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 234743, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩