Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Edward O'Hara

Youth Justice Commission · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Demoted

Rank as reported: Police Lieutenant
Sustained charge(s): (a) 12 -
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Police Lieutenant O'Hara was demoted by the Youth Justice Commission in 2024. The record listed 1 PNDA and 3 charges, finding that O'Hara reported to work unfit and under the influence and was determined unfit for duty, was incapacitated to discharge his duty due to disability, and made false statements to an investigator. The number of days suspended was not reported. The sustained basis was other sufficient cause.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

1 PNDA, 3 Charges (Reporting to Work Unfit; Incapacity to discharge one's duty due to disability, and Falsification; Employee came to work under the influence and determined unfit for duty; false statements to investigator)

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $108,742
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 23 years, 9 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 1426. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 211381, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩