Officer Wesley Hernandez of the Union City Police Department was terminated after being found to be accessing unauthorized information through police computer systems. The sustained charge was cited under N.J.S.A. 2C:20-25e. The record provides no further detail.
Sustained charge(s): Alcoholic Beverages and Drugs, Substance Testing, Physical and Mental Fitness for Duty, All Other Conduct, Standards of Conduct, Obedience…
same year · similar sanction outcome
Other officers at Union City Police Department
16 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.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Wesley Hernandez's major discipline record?
Officer Wesley Hernandez of the Union City Police Department was terminated after being found to be accessing unauthorized information through police computer systems. The sustained charge was cited under N.J.S.A. 2C:20-25e. The record provides no further detail.
What is Wesley Hernandez's major discipline record at Union City Police Department?
Wesley Hernandez has one major discipline record at Union City Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2021. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Wesley Hernandez's record show a termination?
Yes. At least one of Wesley Hernandez's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2021.
How large is Union City Police Department, the department Wesley Hernandez worked for?
Union City Police Department reported 156 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Wesley Hernandez individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2600. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8347. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩