Suspended 22 daysSeparated while IA pending2025 · as reported
Patrolman Donald Dennis was suspended for 22 days by the West Deptford Township Police Department in 2025 and separated while an internal affairs matter was pending. The agency reported that Dennis failed to respond to a call for service after missing a radio call from communications. The internal affairs investigation found that he missed the call while conducting a personal matter on duty and then lied to the internal affairs officer about where he was and who he was with. Sustained charges included neglect of duty, conduct unbecoming, and truthfulness.
Ptlm Dennis failed to respond to a call for service due to missing a radio call from communications. During the course of the internal affairs investigation it was found that he missed the radio call for conducting a personal matter on duty and subsequently lied to the internal affairs officer. He provided false information as to where he was and who he was with during the missed call for service.
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Other officers at West Deptford Township Police Department
One other named officer with a reported major discipline record at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.
No confident pension match found. This officer's record shows they resigned, retired, transferred, or otherwise separated from this agency while an internal affairs matter was pending, which can affect whether a current PFRS/SPRS record exists 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. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Donald Dennis's major discipline record?
Patrolman Donald Dennis was suspended for 22 days by the West Deptford Township Police Department in 2025 and separated while an internal affairs matter was pending. The agency reported that Dennis failed to respond to a call for service after missing a radio call from communications. The internal affairs investigation found that he missed the call while conducting a personal matter on duty and then lied to the internal affairs officer about where he was and who he was with. Sustained charges included neglect of duty, conduct unbecoming, and truthfulness.
What is Donald Dennis's major discipline record at West Deptford Township Police Department?
Donald Dennis has one major discipline record at West Deptford Township Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is West Deptford Township Police Department, the department Donald Dennis worked for?
West Deptford Township Police Department reported 43 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Donald Dennis individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 348. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8331. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩