Officer record · As reported by the employing agency
Absecon City Police Department · 1 record · 2022
Terminated2022 · as reported
Officer Steven Hance was terminated by the Absecon City Police Department in 2022. The record states that Hance was untruthful and falsified his initial application while seeking employment with the department, failing to fully disclose the circumstances surrounding his departure from a previous law enforcement employer. The sustained charge was listed as 40A:14-147, Removal, Suspension of Police Officer.
Major discipline · 2022[1]
TerminatedSynopsis as reported by the agency
Officer Hance was untruthful and falsified the initial application while seeking employment with the Absecon Police Department. The officer failed to fully disclose circumstances surrounding the departure from his previous law enforcement employer.
Kevin Craig · Absecon City Police Department · 2022
Suspended 30 daysSustained charge(s): 3:1.5 Performance of Duty
same agency · same year
Santiago Philip · Aberdeen Township Police Department · 2022
TerminatedSustained charge(s): Tampering with Physical Evidence
same year · similar sanction outcome
Randy Rodriguez-Marte · Atlantic City Police Department · 2022
TerminatedSustained charge(s): Standard of Conduct, Obedience to Laws & Regulations & Drug Testing-Positive Results
same year · similar sanction outcome
Essence Henry · Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office · 2022
TerminatedSustained charge(s): Agency Vehicle
same year · similar sanction outcome
Essence Henry · Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office · 2022
TerminatedSustained charge(s): Ethics, Standards, & Conduct
same year · similar sanction outcome
2 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.
No confident pension match found. This officer's record shows a termination; a terminated officer would not have an active PFRS/SPRS record at this agency, which is one reason no match may exist here. 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. Other general possibilities include insufficient vesting, a role not covered by PFRS or SPRS, a deferred or vested status not reflected in a current snapshot, or a data-matching limitation. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.
Officer Steven Hance was terminated by the Absecon City Police Department in 2022. The record states that Hance was untruthful and falsified his initial application while seeking employment with the department, failing to fully disclose the circumstances surrounding his departure from a previous law enforcement employer. The sustained charge was listed as 40A:14-147, Removal, Suspension of Police Officer.
Steven Hance has one major discipline record at Absecon City Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Yes. At least one of Steven Hance's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2022.
Absecon City Police Department reported 29 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Steven Hance individually.