Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Hamid Sesay

NJ Division of Criminal Justice - Trenton · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 166 days

Rank as reported: Detective
Sustained charge(s): ; (DUI and MV violation)
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Detective Hamid Sesay was suspended for 166 days by the NJ Division of Criminal Justice in 2025 for conduct unbecoming and other sufficient cause tied to a DUI and a motor vehicle violation. On August 17, 2024, Ridgefield police found Sesay asleep in the driver's seat of his running vehicle, stopped at a stop sign. He failed field sobriety tests and refused to submit breath samples. Sesay pleaded guilty to DUI and careless driving and was sentenced to fines and a three-month interlock device.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On August 17, 2024, DCJ Detective Hamid Sesay was observed by the Ridgefield Police Department stopped at a stop sign for a prolonged period of time with his brake lights activated. He was found asleep in the driver’s seat in his running vehicle. After relieving Det. Sesay of his off-duty firearm, the officer administered field sobriety tests that Det. Sesay failed. DuringDUI processing at the police station, specifically the reading of the NJ Attorney General’s Standard Statement Form for Motor Vehicle Operators, he provided ambiguous answers which resulted in his refusal to submit to breath samples. Detective Sesay pleaded guilty to DUI and Careless Driving where he was sentenced to court fees, fines, and a mandated three-month interlock device. The internal affairs investigation found that Det. Sesay violated agency policies related to compliance with law, conduct that reflected negatively on the agency, and carrying a firearm off-duty.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $93,222
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 7 years, 7 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 777. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 211249, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩