Officer record · As reported by the employing agency
East Orange Police Department · 1 record · 2023
Suspended 6 days2023 · as reported
Officer Kendrick Hamlett received a 6-day suspension and loss of time from the East Orange Police Department. On February 22, 2023, at 1633 hrs, a female prisoner escaped from officers' custody while at Beth Israel Hospital in Newark. The sustained charges were failure to perform duties, neglect of duty, and inability to perform duties.
Major discipline · 2023[1]
Suspended 6 daysSynopsis as reported by the agency
On February 22, 2023, at 1633 hrs a female prisoner escaped from Officers custody while at Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, NJ.
Ameen Hooper · East Orange Police Department · 2023
Suspended 10 daysSustained charge(s): Neglect Of Duty; Performance of Duty
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
Antoine Buggs · East Orange Police Department · 2023
Suspended 10 daysSustained charge(s): Neglect of Duty
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
Michael DiGuglielmo · East Orange Police Department · 2023
Suspended 10 daysSustained charge(s): Neglect of Duty; Other sufficient cause "Truthfulness"; Operation of Motor Vehicles
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
Rian Hill · East Orange Police Department · 2023
Suspended 180 daysSustained charge(s): Neglect of Duty; Conduct unbecoming a public employee; by operating a motor vehicle under the influence
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
Justin Tracy · Audubon Police Department · 2023
Suspended 20 daysSustained charge(s): Neglect of Duty / Performance of Duty / Temporary Detention Violation
same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
10 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.
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Officer Kendrick Hamlett received a 6-day suspension and loss of time from the East Orange Police Department. On February 22, 2023, at 1633 hrs, a female prisoner escaped from officers' custody while at Beth Israel Hospital in Newark. The sustained charges were failure to perform duties, neglect of duty, and inability to perform duties.
Kendrick Hamlett has one major discipline record at East Orange Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
East Orange Police Department reported 171 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Kendrick Hamlett individually.