Officer Christopher Eckerson was terminated by the Fanwood Police Department in 2021. The record also lists a suspension. The record states this was a standard of conduct violation for refusing to submit to a breath test and for a guilty finding of reckless driving. The agency did not provide the sustained charges.
No confident pension match found. This officer's record shows a termination; a terminated officer would not have an active PFRS/SPRS record at this agency, which is one reason no match may exist here. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Other general possibilities include insufficient vesting, a role not covered by PFRS or SPRS, a deferred or vested status not reflected in a current snapshot, or a data-matching limitation. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Christopher Eckerson's major discipline record?
Officer Christopher Eckerson was terminated by the Fanwood Police Department in 2021. The record also lists a suspension. The record states this was a standard of conduct violation for refusing to submit to a breath test and for a guilty finding of reckless driving. The agency did not provide the sustained charges.
What is Christopher Eckerson's major discipline record at Fanwood Police Department?
Christopher Eckerson has one major discipline record at Fanwood Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2021. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Christopher Eckerson's record show a termination?
Yes. At least one of Christopher Eckerson's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2021.
How large is Fanwood Police Department, the department Christopher Eckerson worked for?
Fanwood Police Department reported 15 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Christopher Eckerson individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2773. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8605. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩