Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Lukasz Chmielewski

Garfield Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 7 days

Rank as reported: Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): a public employee, Action Off-Duty, All Other Conduct
Other sanction: Written reprimand or written warning
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Officer Lukasz Chmielewski was suspended for 7 days and received a written reprimand from the Garfield Police Department. On September 5, 2024, while off-duty and driving his personal vehicle, Chmielewski was involved in a traffic incident in Garfield in which he committed multiple Title 39 motor vehicle violations. The department reported that he failed to report the incident to the Garfield Police Department, did not call 9-1-1, and did not notify a supervisor of his involvement.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On September 5th, 2024, while off-duty, Officer Lukasz Chmielewski was involved in a traffic incident within the City of Garfield while utilizing his personal vehicle. During the incident, Officer Chmielewski committed multiple Title 39 motor vehicle violations and placed himself and others in danger while driving in a dangerous manner. Officer Chmielewski failed to report the incident to the Garfield Police Department nor did he call 9-1-1. Officer Chmielewski also failed to notify a supervisor within the Garfield Police Department of his involvement in the incident.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $72,297
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 7 years, 10 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 75. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 231867, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩