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Cheryl Lopez

Belleville Police Department · 1 record · 2024

Suspended 7 days2024 · as reported

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.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2024[1]

Suspended 7 days
Rank as reported
Luietenant (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
Departmental Rule Violation
Other sanction
Monetary fine or loss of pay
Separated while IA pending
No

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.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

  • Filiberto Colon · Belleville Police Department · 2024

    Suspended 10 days

    Sustained charge(s): Conduct Unbecoming

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Filiberto Colon · Belleville Police Department · 2024

    Suspended 20 days

    Sustained charge(s): Insubordination

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Joan Martinez · Belleville Police Department · 2024

    Suspended 15 days

    Sustained charge(s): Violation of "sick leave" policy & Insubordination

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Marco Zarfino · Belleville Police Department · 2025

    Suspended 15 days

    Sustained charge(s): Viloation of "Rules and Regulations" (Standards of Conduct) and Violation of Department "Sick Leave" Policy

    same agency · similar sanction outcome

  • Graham Koshnick · Belleville Police Department · 2023

    Suspended 5 days

    Sustained charge(s): Providing False information and All other conduct

    same agency · similar sanction outcome

Other officers at Belleville Police Department

8 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

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

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.

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. [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. [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. [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/. ↩