Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Terrence Best

Newark Police Department · 1 record · 2022

About this data

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Major discipline · 2022^[1]

Suspended 53 days

Rank as reported: SGT
Sustained charge(s): Disobedience of orders
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Sergeant Best responded to the scene of a motor vehicle accident involving an off-duty police officer who was reported to be intoxicated. Best violated a direct order from his immediate supervisor when he failed to administer a field sobriety test or a breathalyzer on the off-duty officer. Newark PD sustained a charge of disobedience of orders and suspended Best for 53 days in 2022.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Sgt. Best was suspended for 53 days for violation of Department rules and regulations; disobedience of orders. Sgt. Best responded to the scene of a motor vehicle accident involving an off-duty police officer accused of being intoxicated. Sgt. Best violated a direct order from his immediate supervisor when he failed to administer a field sobriety test or a breathalyzer on the off-duty officer.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $166,556
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 30 years, 11 months

How to read this

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 (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2160. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 218054, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩