Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Charles Galbo III

Garfield Police Department · 1 record · 2023

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Major discipline · 2023^[1]

Suspended 20 days

Rank as reported: Officer
Sustained charge(s): an Officer; ; Failure to immediately report a Theft of a Firearm; Failure to safely secure a Firearm
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Officer Charles Galbo III was suspended for 20 days by the Garfield Police Department. While off-duty at his residence on May 17, 2023, Galbo III failed to secure his off-duty firearm in a safe location, knowing that visitors would be present that day, and the firearm was subsequently stolen. The department reported that he failed to immediately report the theft and waited approximately eight hours to do so.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer Galbo was off-duty on May 17, 2023. While at his residence he failed to secure his off-duty firearm in a safe location knowing that there would be visitors at his residence on that specific date. Due to failing to secure his off-duty firearm in a safe location, a theft of his off-duty firearm subsequently occurred. Officer Galbo also failed to immediately report the theft of his off-duty firearm immediately and waited approximately eight (8) hours to report the theft of his off-duty firearm. Officer Galbo was suspended for twenty (20) days.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $56,492
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 6 years, 2 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 1506. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 231877, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩