County profile
Cumberland County
6 law enforcement agencies reported internal affairs activity for 2025.
IA investigations, 2025
296[1]
Officers named in IA cases, 2025
188[1]
In brief
Cumberland County has six reporting law enforcement agencies, and all of them filed internal affairs summaries for 2025. They listed 296 investigations involving 188 officers. The Vineland Police Department reported 94, the Millville Police Department 80 and the Bridgeton Police Department 65. Read those figures with care: more investigations can indicate more misconduct or more thorough intake and documentation.
Major discipline in the 2020-2025 releases comes to 36 records for Cumberland County, 9 of them terminations. Vineland carries 13, Cumberland County Corrections 10 and Millville 5. Internal affairs cases are complaints under review; major discipline is the adjudicated outcome.
Written by this site strictly from the figures on this page; every number is cited below.
Internal affairs investigations in Cumberland County, by year
counts · 5 reported years
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 294 |
| 2022 | 246 |
| 2023 | 268 |
| 2024 | 236 |
| 2025 | 296 |
Where this county sits
| Measure | Value | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| IA per 1,000 residents2025 | 1.92 | 3rd of 21 counties |
| Discipline per 1,000 residents2020-2025 | 0.23 | 7th of 21 counties |
| Officers named per 1,0002025 | 1.22 | 5th of 21 counties |
| Per officer named2025 | 1.57 | 5th of 21 counties |
| Not reporting2025 | 0% | 1st of 21 counties |
| IA investigations2025 | 296 | 15th of 21 counties |
| IA incidents2025 | 223 | 15th of 21 counties |
| Officers named2025 | 188 | 16th of 21 counties |
| Major discipline2020-2025 | 36 | 17th of 21 counties |
| Terminations2020-2025 | 9 | 13th of 21 counties |
Agencies in Cumberland County
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Shading on Investigations and Major discipline compares each agency to the other 5 reporting agencies in Cumberland County only. Not a grade or a judgment.
IA totals are for 2025; major discipline counts span 2020-2025. 5 of these agencies are in civil service jurisdictions governed by the Title 4A discipline framework (see the full local jurisdiction roster). 2 of these agencies encrypt their radio communications (source: PoliceRadioEncryption.com).
Police pay and school-staff pay
Full comparisonA separate dataset from the discipline records above: NJ Treasury pension salaries as of March 31, 2026, for 412 active police officers and 2,756 active TPAF-enrolled school staff whose employers the pension system places in Cumberland County.
Median school staff
$78,092
Pensionable base salary
Ratio
1.05x
$3,871 a year
School staff below the median officer
55%
Share of the county's TPAF members
Military surplus equipment (1033 program)
No 1033 transfers recorded. No surplus-equipment transfers appear for any CumberlandCounty agency under a high-confidence name match in the Defense Logistics Agency's file as of 2026-06-30. That can mean these agencies received nothing through the program, or that a recipient name in the federal file did not confidently match a department here. Statewide totals and how the match is made are on the 1033 program overview and in the methodology.
Fatal encounters recorded in Cumberland County
From the independent Fatal Encounters dataset, 2000-2021
Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen: no records after 2021 means the dataset ended, not that these deaths ended.[4] It records all deaths that occurred during a police encounter of any kind: vehicle pursuits, suicides in police presence, and medical emergencies are included alongside uses of force. The 26 records below appear here because the county the project recorded is Cumberland County. A listing is not a misconduct finding, and it is not connected to the Attorney General discipline records on this page. See the methodology. Each record links to its own page with the full as-reported details.
26 of 26 records plotted.
| County | Records |
|---|---|
| Cumberland | 26 |
Individual records, with names, dates, cities, and the agencies the source names, are in the record list on this page.
2021 (1 record)
2018 (4 records)
2017 (5 records)
2016 (3 records)
2015 (1 record)
2014 (1 record)
2012 (1 record)
2011 (1 record)
2010 (2 records)
2008 (1 record)
2006 (1 record)
2005 (1 record)
2003 (4 records)
All 26 of these records, and every New Jersey record in the dataset, are on the fatal encounters index.
Questions and answers
How many internal affairs investigations did Cumberland County report in 2025?
Agencies in Cumberland County reported 296 internal affairs investigations in 2025, across 6 reporting agencies, according to New Jersey Attorney General data.
How many police major discipline records are there in Cumberland County?
Cumberland County agencies have 36 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, including 9 terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions.
Which Cumberland County police departments encrypt their radio?
2 agencies in Cumberland County are listed as encrypting their radio communications by PoliceRadioEncryption.com. The full list is on the encrypted departments page.
How many deaths during police encounters are recorded in Cumberland County?
The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 26 records whose recorded county is Cumberland County, covering 2000 through 2021. Fatal Encounters is a crowdsourced journalism project, not a government source, and it documented deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind. It stopped collecting in December 2021, so the absence of later records means the dataset ended.
Sources
- [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. County totals summed over Cumberland County agency rows for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
- [2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. Record counts from Cumberland County rows, all years; row 1 is the header. ↩
- [3]New Jersey county boundaries. New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS). NJ_Counties_3857 (FeatureServer layer 0), https://services2.arcgis.com/XVOqAjTOJ5P6ngMu/arcgis/rest/services/NJ_Counties_3857/FeatureServer/0. 2020 boundary delineation. Retrieved 2026-07-27. Boundaries are generalized for display. This data set is not a survey document and must not be used as such. The polygons do not represent legal boundaries.
- [4]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Fatal Encounters national dataset (2000-2021); collection ended December 2021. Retrieved 2026-07-10. https://fatalencounters.org/ ↩
- [5]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset) and YourMoney Active Pension Members (TPAF subset, names removed). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Both snapshots as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. Figures are computed by this site from as-reported pensionable salaries; the row-by-row account of what entered each figure is published at /data/pay-comparison.json. ↩