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Keith Wester

New Milford Police Department · 1 record · 2025

Officer Keith Wester was suspended for 23 days by the New Milford Police Department in 2025 and received a loss of accrued time. The record describes three separate incidents in the same time frame in 2024: Wester sent harassing text messages to a civilian via social media, was arrested in a domestic violence incident he failed to report, and was involved in a second domestic violence incident while on leave that he also failed to report. Wester was not reinstated after the investigation concluded and retired from the department.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Suspended 23 daysSeparated while IA pending
Rank as reported
PO (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
Violation of Standards of Conduct (Off Duty) (3 Counts) Violations of Rules of Conduct (All other conduct) (3 Counts)
Other sanction
Loss of time
Separated while IA pending
Yes

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Three separate incidents in the same time frame in 2024: Officer sent harassing text messages to a civilian via social media. Officer was also involved in a domestic violence incident which resulted in him being arrested and failed to report incident to police department. Officer was then involved in a second domestic violence incident while on leave from the first incident which he also failed to report to his police department. His conduct at both domestic incidents resulted in a sustained policy violation for off duty conduct. The officer received a loss 23 days of accrued time. The officer was not reinstated after the internal investigation was concluded and retired from the department.

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Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance
$8,414.48
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living)
$8,414.48
Final salary basis
$155,344
Retired
April 2025
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
25 years

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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Keith Wester's major discipline record?

Officer Keith Wester was suspended for 23 days by the New Milford Police Department in 2025 and received a loss of accrued time. The record describes three separate incidents in the same time frame in 2024: Wester sent harassing text messages to a civilian via social media, was arrested in a domestic violence incident he failed to report, and was involved in a second domestic violence incident while on leave that he also failed to report. Wester was not reinstated after the investigation concluded and retired from the department.

What is Keith Wester's major discipline record at New Milford Police Department?

Keith Wester has one major discipline record at New Milford Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Keith Wester's pension on record?

Keith Wester's reported monthly pension allowance is $8,414.48, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Keith Wester has 25 years of reported service.

How large is New Milford Police Department, the department Keith Wester worked for?

New Milford Police Department reported 37 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Keith Wester individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 81. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 376186 (member 44375658), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8167. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩