Trooper Zachary Smith admitted to acting in an official and unofficial capacity to the discredit of the New Jersey State Police while both on and off duty. According to the record, Smith consumed alcoholic beverages inside a station while on duty and additional beverages at a local establishment while off duty, then crashed marked troop transportation into another vehicle, departed, and provided false information to a supervisor. He received a 545 day suspension in 2023.
Consume Alcoholic Beverage(s) and Operate Troop Car
Drinking on Duty
Intentional False Statements
Separated while IA pending
No
Synopsis as reported by the agency
Member admitted to acting in an official and unofficial capacity to the discredit of the Division while both on and off-duty. The member consumed alcoholic beverages inside a station while on duty. Once off-duty, the member consumed additional alcoholic beverages at a local establishment to the point of intoxication. The member then crashed into another vehicle while driving marked troop transportation, departed, and provided false information concerning his involvement when contacted by a supervisor. The member received a 545 day suspension.
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Police Transparency NJ, "Zachary Smith, New Jersey State Police," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/zachary-smith-new-jersey-state-police/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Zachary Smith's major discipline record?
Trooper Zachary Smith admitted to acting in an official and unofficial capacity to the discredit of the New Jersey State Police while both on and off duty. According to the record, Smith consumed alcoholic beverages inside a station while on duty and additional beverages at a local establishment while off duty, then crashed marked troop transportation into another vehicle, departed, and provided false information to a supervisor. He received a 545 day suspension in 2023.
What is Zachary Smith's major discipline record at New Jersey State Police?
Zachary Smith has one major discipline record at New Jersey State Police in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is New Jersey State Police, the department Zachary Smith worked for?
New Jersey State Police reported 3,351 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Zachary Smith individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1891. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8645. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩