Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Cheryl Lopez

Belleville Police Department · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 7 days

Rank as reported: Luietenant
Sustained charge(s): Departmental Rule Violation
Other sanction: Monetary fine or loss of pay
Separated while IA pending: No

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

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.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

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.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $156,964
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 22 years, 7 months

How to read this

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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/. ↩