Sergeant Preston Freeman was suspended for 30 days by the Westfield Police Department in 2023. The agency reported that on January 29, 2021, Freeman was involved with the issuance of an emergency suspension of a patrol officer. A subsequent internal investigation found that the employee was improperly suspended, resulting in a sustained neglect of duty charge. The investigation also found that Freeman issued orders that directly contradicted the Chief of Police, which sustained an insubordination charge.
On January 29, 2021, Sergeant Preston Freeman was involved with the issuance of an emergency suspension of a patrol officer. A subsequent internal investigation revealed that the employee was improperly suspended, resulting in sustained charges. Furthermore, the internal investigation revealed that Sergeant Preston Freeman issued orders that directly contradicted the Chief of Police, resulting in sustained charges.
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What is a summary of Preston Freeman's major discipline record?
Sergeant Preston Freeman was suspended for 30 days by the Westfield Police Department in 2023. The agency reported that on January 29, 2021, Freeman was involved with the issuance of an emergency suspension of a patrol officer. A subsequent internal investigation found that the employee was improperly suspended, resulting in a sustained neglect of duty charge. The investigation also found that Freeman issued orders that directly contradicted the Chief of Police, which sustained an insubordination charge.
What is Preston Freeman's major discipline record at Westfield Police Department?
Preston Freeman has one major discipline record at Westfield Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Westfield Police Department, the department Preston Freeman worked for?
Westfield Police Department reported 63 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Preston Freeman individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2000. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8620. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩