Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Darrin Dewitt

Hackensack Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 10 days

Rank as reported: Captain
Sustained charge(s): (a)6: a public employee (a)12: Other sufficient causes
Other sanction: Loss of time
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Captain Darrin DeWitt was suspended for 10 days by the Hackensack Police Department. On August 16, 2022, DeWitt addressed officers at a 06:00 lineup and made unprofessional remarks about a former and a current employee of the City of Hackensack. After appeal, the charges of conduct unbecoming a public employee and other sufficient causes were sustained on May 21, 2025. DeWitt also received a loss of time.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On August 16, 2022, Captain Darrin DeWitt responded to lineup at 06:00 hours where he addressed officers leaving and arriving for their tour of duty. Captain DeWitt proceeded to make unprofessional remarks regarding a former and current employee of the City of Hackensack in violation of (a)6: a public employee and (a)12: Other sufficient causes. After appeal, on May 21, 2025, Captain DeWitt was sustained on the aforementioned charges. Captain DeWitt was suspended for ten (10) days

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $201,123
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 21 years, 8 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.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 76. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 224267, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩