In 2024, Lawrence Township Police Department suspended Officer Hardin for 6 days. According to the record, during a shoplifting investigation Hardin failed to thoroughly search an arrestee who was later found to be concealing a loaded firearm. The sustained charge was a violation of Rules and Regulations 40.46 governing the failure to search.
Rules and Regulations 40.46 Failure to search etc.
Separated while IA pending
No
Synopsis as reported by the agency
During an shoplifting investigation, Officer Hardin failed to thoroughly search an arrestee who was later found to be concealing a loaded firearm on his person.
The amount is as reported by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury in its YourMoney pension data, as of March 31, 2026. It is the pension-basis figure and may not include overtime, accrued leave, stipends, or other pay. The link between this officer and this pension record is a records-based match at high confidence (matching name, exact employing agency, police-confirmed occupation, no competing candidate, and a scored match probability above the published floor; see the methodology), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.
Cite this page
Police Transparency NJ, "Shareef Hardin, Lawrence Township Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/shareef-hardin-lawrence-twp-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Shareef Hardin's major discipline record?
In 2024, Lawrence Township Police Department suspended Officer Hardin for 6 days. According to the record, during a shoplifting investigation Hardin failed to thoroughly search an arrestee who was later found to be concealing a loaded firearm. The sustained charge was a violation of Rules and Regulations 40.46 governing the failure to search.
What is Shareef Hardin's major discipline record at Lawrence Township Police Department?
Shareef Hardin has one major discipline record at Lawrence Township Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Shareef Hardin's base salary on record?
Shareef Hardin's reported base salary is $66,143, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Shareef Hardin has 13 years, 6 months of reported service.
How large is Lawrence Township Police Department, the department Shareef Hardin worked for?
Lawrence Township Police Department reported 61 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Shareef Hardin individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1145. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 220945, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8376. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩