Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Dawn Shyner

New Jersey State Police · 1 record · 2020

About this data

Records on this page come from the Attorney General's major discipline releases: final, post-appeal discipline as reported by the employing agency. They are sustained charges, not allegations.
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In internal affairs data, allegations are not findings: many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
Any compensation figure below comes from New Jersey Treasury pension data, a separate source from the discipline records. It is matched to this officer by name and employing agency at high confidence, not by certified identity.

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Major discipline · 2020^[1]

Suspended 20 days

Rank as reported: Lieutenant
Sustained charge(s): not applicable
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

Lieutenant Dawn Shyner was suspended for 20 days by the New Jersey State Police in 2020. Shyner was found guilty of failing to cooperate with an internal investigation by not providing full and complete information regarding possible misconduct by other members.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Member was found guilty of failing to cooperate with an internal investigation by not providing full and complete information regarding possible misconduct by other members.

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $8,771.10
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $8,771.10
Final salary basis: $156,510
Retired: January 2022
Pension fund: State Police Retirement System (SPRS)
Reported years of service: 27 years, 3 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 2943. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 321063 (member 44284272), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩