Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Keith Irons

Dunellen Police Department · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 31 days

Rank as reported: Patrolman
Sustained charge(s): Untruthfulness-40A: 14-147, Rule 30-care for issued equipment, Rule 53- failure to be home when sick
Other sanction: Loss of time
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Patrolman Keith Irons of the Dunellen Police Department was suspended for 31 days in 2024 and lost time. Irons called out sick for a scheduled shift and failed to notify the department of his true location, where department property was stolen from his unsecured vehicle. When asked for a written explanation, Irons was initially untruthful, but he later voluntarily came forward and admitted being untruthful about his whereabouts before an internal affairs investigation was initiated.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer Irons called out sick for scheduled shift. It was later discovered that Irons, failed to notify his department of his true location and where department property was stolen from his unsecured vehicle. When asked to give a written explanation as to what had happened and was stolen, Irons was initially untruthful in his documented letter. After other discrepancies were noticed, Irons voluntarily came forward and admitted to being untruthful about his whereabouts that night, before an Internal Affairs Invest was actually initiated.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $113,215
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 14 years, 2 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 1166. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 223275, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩