County profile
Hunterdon County
16 law enforcement agencies reported internal affairs activity for 2025.
IA investigations, 2025
110[1]
Officers named in IA cases, 2025
75[1]
In brief
Internal affairs reporting in Hunterdon County was complete for 2025: all 16 agencies filed. Their summaries list 110 investigations involving 75 officers. The Clinton Township Police Department reported 29, the Raritan Township Police Department 13 and the Delaware Township Police Department 11. In a county of small departments, a few extra cases move an agency up the list, and volume by itself proves nothing about conduct.
The 2020-2025 major discipline releases hold 15 records for Hunterdon County, including 4 terminations. Clinton Township accounts for 12 of them, Raritan Township for 2 and the Franklin Township Police Department for 1.
Written by this site strictly from the figures on this page; every number is cited below.
Agencies in Hunterdon County
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Shading on Investigations and Major discipline compares each agency to the other 15 reporting agencies in Hunterdon County only. Not a grade or a judgment.
IA totals are for 2025; major discipline counts span 2020-2025. 1 of these agencies are in civil service jurisdictions governed by the Title 4A discipline framework (see the full local jurisdiction roster).
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 238 active police officers and 2,249 active TPAF-enrolled school staff whose employers the pension system places in Hunterdon County.
Median school staff
$82,931
Pensionable base salary
Ratio
1.30x
$24,823 a year
School staff below the median officer
92%
Share of the county's TPAF members
Military surplus equipment (1033 program)
No 1033 transfers recorded. No surplus-equipment transfers appear for any HunterdonCounty 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 Hunterdon 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 5 records below appear here because the county the project recorded is Hunterdon 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.
2017 (1 record)
2007 (1 record)
2004 (1 record)
2000 (2 records)
All 5 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 Hunterdon County report in 2025?
Agencies in Hunterdon County reported 110 internal affairs investigations in 2025, across 16 reporting agencies, according to New Jersey Attorney General data.
How many police major discipline records are there in Hunterdon County?
Hunterdon County agencies have 15 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, including 4 terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions.
How many deaths during police encounters are recorded in Hunterdon County?
The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 5 records whose recorded county is Hunterdon 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 Hunterdon 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 Hunterdon 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. ↩