Officer record · As reported by the employing agency
Trenton Police Department · 1 record · 2023
Suspended 20 days2023 · as reported
Officer Melvin Hamilton was suspended for 20 days by the Trenton Police Department in 2023. Hamilton failed to properly search an arrestee who was concealing a firearm on his person. The sustained charge was Neglect of Duty.
Major discipline · 2023[1]
Suspended 20 daysSynopsis as reported by the agency
Officer Melvin Hamilton failed to properly search an arrestee who was concealing a firearm on his persons.
Richard Reyes · Trenton Police Department · 2023
Suspended 20 daysSustained charge(s): Neglect of Duty
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
Jose Villanueva · Trenton Police Department · 2023
Suspended 20 daysSustained charge(s): Neglect of Duty
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
Lukasz Kulis · Trenton Police Department · 2023
Suspended 50 daysSustained charge(s): Neglect of Duty
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
Shaquan Washington · Trenton Police Department · 2023
Suspended 75 daysSustained charge(s): Neglect of Duty
same agency · same year · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
Nathan Bolognini · Trenton Police Department · 2025
Suspended 8 daysSustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a)7 Neglect of Duty, TPD Rule 3:1.5(b) Inefficiency or Incompetency of Supervisors and Superior Officers
same agency · similar charge category · similar sanction outcome
39 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 Melvin Hamilton was suspended for 20 days by the Trenton Police Department in 2023. Hamilton failed to properly search an arrestee who was concealing a firearm on his person. The sustained charge was Neglect of Duty.
Melvin Hamilton has one major discipline record at Trenton Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Trenton Police Department reported 239 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Melvin Hamilton individually.