Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Officer Janet Santiago was suspended for 6 days by the Newark Police Department in 2021 for being off her assigned post without authorization when a shooting occurred on that post. The sustained charges were not reported.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Officer Santiago was suspended for 6 days for being off her assigned post without authorization when a shooting occurred on her post.
Compensation and pension
No confident pension match found. 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. Where that bar is not met, nothing is shown rather than a guess. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2554. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩