Officer Peter Troast failed to properly document the physical force that he applied to an arrestee. The Montclair PD sustained a charge under its obedience to laws standard. Troast received a suspension of 10 days for the violation.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Peter Troast's major discipline record?
Officer Peter Troast failed to properly document the physical force that he applied to an arrestee. The Montclair PD sustained a charge under its obedience to laws standard. Troast received a suspension of 10 days for the violation.
What is Peter Troast's major discipline record at Montclair Police Department?
Peter Troast has one major discipline record at Montclair Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Montclair Police Department, the department Peter Troast worked for?
Montclair Police Department reported 113 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Peter Troast individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2155. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8298. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩