Officer Grace Velez-Paredes was suspended for 10 days by the Newark Police Department in 2022 for a charge related to accessibility to department surgeons and superior officers. Velez-Paredes failed to be accessible to the medical services unit and to provide a medical update to the department.
Officer Velez-Paredes was suspended for 10 days for violation of Department rules and regulations; accessibility to department surgeons and superior officers. Officer Velez-Paredes failed to be accessible to the medical services unit and provide a medical update to the police department.
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What is a summary of Grace Velez-Paredes's major discipline record?
Officer Grace Velez-Paredes was suspended for 10 days by the Newark Police Department in 2022 for a charge related to accessibility to department surgeons and superior officers. Velez-Paredes failed to be accessible to the medical services unit and to provide a medical update to the department.
What is Grace Velez-Paredes's major discipline record at Newark Police Department?
Grace Velez-Paredes has one major discipline record at Newark Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Grace Velez-Paredes's base salary on record?
Grace Velez-Paredes's reported base salary is $119,850, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Grace Velez-Paredes has 9 years, 3 months of reported service.
How large is Newark Police Department, the department Grace Velez-Paredes worked for?
Newark Police Department reported 1,119 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Grace Velez-Paredes individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2170. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 218953, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8643. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩