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Robert Fessler

Lower Township Police Department · 2 records · 2020

Suspended 10 daysmost recent record, 2020 · as reported

Fessler has 2 sustained major discipline records from Lower Twp PD, all from 2020. The records include a suspension.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2020[1]

Suspended 35 days

Plain-language summary

Written by this site from the cited record only.

Officer Robert Fessler was suspended for 35 days by the Lower Township Police Department in 2020. The department's synopsis for the matter reads only 'Conduct unbecoming a public employee.' No separate sustained charges were reported for the matter.

Rank as reported
Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
not applicable
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

a public employee

Major discipline · 2020[2]

Suspended 10 days

Plain-language summary

Written by this site from the cited record only.

Officer Robert Fessler received a 10-day suspension from the Lower Township Police Department in 2020. The department's synopsis for this matter reads only 'Domestic dispute.' No sustained charges were reported by the agency for the matter.

Rank as reported
Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
not applicable
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Domestic dispute

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

  • Simba Elam-Hampton · Lower Township Police Department · 2025

    Suspended 6 days

    Sustained charge(s): Failure to perfom duties, Conduct Unbecomig, Neglect of Duty, Other Sufficient Cause of LTPD Rules and Regs

    same agency · similar sanction outcome

  • Andrew DiDonato · Lower Township Police Department · 2024

    Suspended 55 days

    Sustained charge(s): Conducting Unbecoming of a Public Employee,

    same agency · similar sanction outcome

  • Stephen Flitcroft · Lower Township Police Department · 2024

    Suspended 30 days

    Sustained charge(s): Incompetency, inefficiency or failure to perform duties and Neglect of Duty

    same agency · similar sanction outcome

  • Scott Ritter · Asbury Park Police Department · 2020

    Suspended 40 days

    same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Christopher Leahy · Asbury Park Police Department · 2020

    Suspended 30 days

    same year · similar sanction outcome

Other officers at Lower Township Police Department

6 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

Compensation and pension

No confident pension match found. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Where that bar is not met, nothing is shown rather than a guess. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Robert Fessler's major discipline record?

Fessler has 2 sustained major discipline records from Lower Twp PD, all from 2020. The records include a suspension.

What is Robert Fessler's major discipline record at Lower Township Police Department?

Robert Fessler has 2 major discipline records at Lower Township Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2020. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How large is Lower Township Police Department, the department Robert Fessler worked for?

Lower Township Police Department reported 49 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Robert Fessler individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2823. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2824. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8270. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩