A prisoner was placed into the secure holding facility that Officer Kevin Skeeters was assigned to, and Skeeters failed to properly search the prisoner or the area, the Atlantic City Police Department reported. A knife was subsequently found in the cell where the prisoner was held. The department sustained a charge of Temporary Detention: Booking and Intake / Security and Control. Skeeters was suspended for 15 days and received a monetary fine or loss of pay.
Temporary Detention: Booking and Intake / Security and Control
Other sanction
Monetary fine or loss of pay
Separated while IA pending
No
Synopsis as reported by the agency
A prisoner was placed into the secure holding facility. Officer Sketers, who was assigned to the secure facility, failed to search said prisoner or area properly. A knife was subsequently found in the cell where the prisoner was held.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Kevin Skeeters's major discipline record?
A prisoner was placed into the secure holding facility that Officer Kevin Skeeters was assigned to, and Skeeters failed to properly search the prisoner or the area, the Atlantic City Police Department reported. A knife was subsequently found in the cell where the prisoner was held. The department sustained a charge of Temporary Detention: Booking and Intake / Security and Control. Skeeters was suspended for 15 days and received a monetary fine or loss of pay.
What is Kevin Skeeters's major discipline record at Atlantic City Police Department?
Kevin Skeeters has one major discipline record at Atlantic City Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Atlantic City Police Department, the department Kevin Skeeters worked for?
Atlantic City Police Department reported 295 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Kevin Skeeters individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 12. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8112. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩