In 2021, Belleville PD suspended Patrol Officer Canning for 15 days for insubordination. Canning refused a direct order from a supervisor, according to the record. The agency did not provide the formal sustained charges, and no other sanction was reported.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Philip Canning's major discipline record?
In 2021, Belleville PD suspended Patrol Officer Canning for 15 days for insubordination. Canning refused a direct order from a supervisor, according to the record. The agency did not provide the formal sustained charges, and no other sanction was reported.
What is Philip Canning's major discipline record at Belleville Police Department?
Philip Canning has one major discipline record at Belleville Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2021. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Belleville Police Department, the department Philip Canning worked for?
Belleville Police Department reported 0 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Philip Canning individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2516. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8286. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩