Officer Dana Black was terminated by the Hamburg Police Department in 2025. Black failed to properly investigate a welfare check of an unresponsive motorist in the roadway on State Highway 23 and did not activate her body worn camera in a timely manner. She modified the official police CAD report 14 days after the incident and after being served with an internal affairs notice, and was found to be untruthful in statements to investigators. Charges including falsifying police records and neglect of duty were sustained.
Officer Black was terminated as a result of several sustained charges as it relates to a failure to properly investigate a “welfare check” of an unresponsive motorist in the roadway (State Hwy 23). The officer further failed to activate her BWC in a timely manner as she arrived on scene, failed to properly notify a supervisor of any BWC malfunction, and failed to activate her BWC throughout the duration of a courtesy transport in her patrol vehicle. The officer later “modified” the official police CAD report (14) days following the incident and after having been served with an IA notice. The IA investigation further determined that the officer failed to activate her overhead lights/sirens while responding to and arriving on scene despite being positioned in the northbound lane of highway traffic. The officer was also found to be untruthful in statements provided to investigators during the administrative interview.
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Compensation and pension
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Dana Black's major discipline record?
Officer Dana Black was terminated by the Hamburg Police Department in 2025. Black failed to properly investigate a welfare check of an unresponsive motorist in the roadway on State Highway 23 and did not activate her body worn camera in a timely manner. She modified the official police CAD report 14 days after the incident and after being served with an internal affairs notice, and was found to be untruthful in statements to investigators. Charges including falsifying police records and neglect of duty were sustained.
What is Dana Black's major discipline record at Hamburg Police Department?
Dana Black has one major discipline record at Hamburg Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Dana Black's record show a termination?
Yes. At least one of Dana Black's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2025.
How large is Hamburg Police Department, the department Dana Black worked for?
Hamburg Police Department reported 10 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Dana Black individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 793. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8591. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩