Suspended 113 daysSeparated while IA pending2024 · as reported
Officer Hassan Edwards was suspended for 113 days by the Plainfield Police Department and separated while an internal affairs matter was pending. The record states Edwards was charged with third-degree theft by deception after creating a false impression that he was entitled to Paycheck Protection Program relief, submitting an application and a purported tax form for a business that did not exist. He received $20,495, then applied for loan forgiveness. Edwards resigned on 19 September 2024 after PTI acceptance.
Officer Hassan Edwards was charged with 2C:20-4-Theft by Deception, a third-degree crime. Officer Edwards created a false impession that he was entitled to relief from Federal Government's Paycheck Protection Program. He submitted a program application and a purported tax form stating he operated a business entitled to relief when no such business existed. After receiving $20,495 from the program, he submitted another application for loan forgiveness stating that the money received had gone to pay expenses for the fictitious business. Officer Edwards was suspended on 15 April 2024, pending the outcome of criminal charges. On 19 September 2024, Officer Edwards resigned after PTI acceptance.
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What is a summary of Hassan Edwards's major discipline record?
Officer Hassan Edwards was suspended for 113 days by the Plainfield Police Department and separated while an internal affairs matter was pending. The record states Edwards was charged with third-degree theft by deception after creating a false impression that he was entitled to Paycheck Protection Program relief, submitting an application and a purported tax form for a business that did not exist. He received $20,495, then applied for loan forgiveness. Edwards resigned on 19 September 2024 after PTI acceptance.
What is Hassan Edwards's major discipline record at Plainfield Police Department?
Hassan Edwards has one major discipline record at Plainfield Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Plainfield Police Department, the department Hassan Edwards worked for?
Plainfield Police Department reported 128 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Hassan Edwards individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1445. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8612. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩