Belleville PD suspended Lieutenant Lopez for 7 days in 2024 for failing to meet the department's rules of conduct, with a monetary fine or loss of pay. Lopez was present when a comment was made about sexual status between two subordinate officers and failed to take immediate action, according to the record.
Lieutenant Lopez was suspended for (7) days for failing to meet the appropriate rules of conduct of the Belleville Police Department. The Lieutenant failed to take immediate action while being present during a comment made about sexual status between two subordinate officers.
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, "Cheryl Lopez, Belleville Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/cheryl-lopez-belleville-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Cheryl Lopez's major discipline record?
Belleville PD suspended Lieutenant Lopez for 7 days in 2024 for failing to meet the department's rules of conduct, with a monetary fine or loss of pay. Lopez was present when a comment was made about sexual status between two subordinate officers and failed to take immediate action, according to the record.
What is Cheryl Lopez's major discipline record at Belleville Police Department?
Cheryl Lopez has one major discipline record at Belleville Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Cheryl Lopez's base salary on record?
Cheryl Lopez's reported base salary is $156,964, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Cheryl Lopez has 22 years, 7 months of reported service.
How large is Belleville Police Department, the department Cheryl Lopez worked for?
Belleville Police Department reported 0 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Cheryl Lopez individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1054. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 231630, 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 8286. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩