Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
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.
Synopsis 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.
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.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2004. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩