In 2025, Jersey City PD sustained charges of excessive absenteeism against Detective Jeffrey Kochanski. The record states Kochanski was absent from duty for an aggregate period of one (1) year in violation of contract or statute. Kochanski was demoted. He was not terminated or suspended.
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.
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What is a summary of Jeffrey Kochanski's major discipline record?
In 2025, Jersey City PD sustained charges of excessive absenteeism against Detective Jeffrey Kochanski. The record states Kochanski was absent from duty for an aggregate period of one (1) year in violation of contract or statute. Kochanski was demoted. He was not terminated or suspended.
What is Jeffrey Kochanski's major discipline record at Jersey City Police Department?
Jeffrey Kochanski has one major discipline record at Jersey City Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Jeffrey Kochanski's base salary on record?
Jeffrey Kochanski's reported base salary is $120,128, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Jeffrey Kochanski has 17 years, 5 months of reported service.
How large is Jersey City Police Department, the department Jeffrey Kochanski worked for?
Jersey City Police Department reported 799 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Jeffrey Kochanski individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 381. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 233227, 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 8343. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩