Department profile · Ocean County
Beachwood Borough Police Department
Reported as: Beachwood Boro PDMunicipal police
Jurisdiction context
Civil service jurisdiction
Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to Beachwood Borough on the New Jersey Civil Service Commission roster.
Read how the process works or the Title 4A glossary. Browse NJCSNavigator’s civil service jurisdiction directory for the full local-jurisdiction roster.
Reflects the NJCSC Appendix A roster as of 2026-07-04. Context only, not legal advice.
In brief
Beachwood Borough Police Department reported 1 officer named in internal affairs cases in 2025 and 1 investigation, a rate of 100 per 100 officers, matching the Ocean County median of 100 and running below the 125.9 median for municipal police statewide. A rate comparison carries two possible meanings, more misconduct or more thorough documentation of complaints. None of the 1 investigation detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Leading allegation categories were not reported for the year.
No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Beachwood received a C on the report card, at the 44th percentile among 171 peers in the 15-29 officers group, a medium-confidence grade.
Written by this site strictly from the figures on this page; every number is cited below.
Officers named in IA cases, 2025
1[1]
Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing
IA investigations, 2025
1[1]
Incidents, 2025
1[1]
Major discipline records
0
All years, 2020-2025
Staffing
As reported by the department to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) census, full-time personnel as of October 31 each year. This is a different measurement from the "officers named in IA cases" figure above; see the methodology.
Sworn officers, 2025
20[7]
61 years reported
| Year | sworn officers |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 3 |
| 1963 | 2 |
| 1964 | 4 |
| 1965 | not reported |
| 1966 | not reported |
| 1967 | not reported |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1972 | 12 |
| 1973 | 14 |
| 1974 | 14 |
| 1975 | 15 |
| 1976 | 19 |
| 1977 | 17 |
| 1978 | 16 |
| 1979 | 16 |
| 1980 | 14 |
| 1981 | 12 |
| 1982 | 11 |
| 1983 | 11 |
| 1984 | 12 |
| 1985 | 12 |
| 1986 | 14 |
| 1987 | 14 |
| 1988 | 14 |
| 1989 | 14 |
| 1990 | 14 |
| 1991 | 14 |
| 1992 | 14 |
| 1993 | 14 |
| 1994 | 14 |
| 1995 | 15 |
| 1996 | 16 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 16 |
| 1999 | 16 |
| 2000 | 18 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 18 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 18 |
| 2007 | 18 |
| 2008 | 19 |
| 2009 | 18 |
| 2010 | 19 |
| 2011 | 17 |
| 2012 | 19 |
| 2013 | 17 |
| 2014 | 17 |
| 2015 | 18 |
| 2016 | 18 |
| 2017 | 18 |
| 2018 | 20 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 20 |
| 2021 | 19 |
| 2022 | 20 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 20 |
| 2025 | 20 |
How Beachwood Borough Police Department's sworn staffing compares with its real peer group (same agency type, similar size band), not an assumed bell curve.
Peer group: Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=166)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 14–16 | 17 |
| 16–18 | 20 |
| 18–20 | 27 |
| 20–22 | 16 |
| 22–24 | 26 |
| 24–26 | 24 |
| 26–28 | 17 |
| 28–30 | 19 |
Beachwood Borough Police Department: 20 sworn officers: 41st percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=166).
The match between this FBI record and this department is this site's inference, not a certified mapping. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.
Officer pay and school-staff pay
County comparisonA separate dataset from the discipline records above: NJ Treasury pension salaries as of March 31, 2026, for the 20 active Beachwood Borough Police Department officers in the file.
Median school staff
$80,170
Ocean County, all TPAF members
Against the county
1.54x
Median officer to Ocean County school-staff median
Military surplus equipment (1033 program)
No 1033 transfers recorded. No surplus-equipment transfers appear for this agency under a high-confidence name match in the Defense Logistics Agency's file as of 2026-06-30. That can mean the agency received nothing through the program, or that a recipient name in the federal file did not confidently match this department. See the methodology for how the match is made, or the statewide 1033 overview for how the program spreads across New Jersey.
Internal affairs investigations by year
counts
| Category | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 12 |
| 2023 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 |
Incidents
1 in 2025
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 |
Officers on IA rows
1 in 2025
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | not reported |
| 2022 | not reported |
| 2023 | not reported |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 |
Computed by this site from the two figures the agency reports each year. Not a misconduct rate: it describes how an agency resolved what it investigated.
share of total · 5 reported years
| Year | share of total |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 33.333 |
| 2023 | 33.333 |
| 2024 | 50 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Statewide, 19.5 percent of investigations reported a sustained complaint in 2025. How dispositions break down statewide.
Complaint mix, 2025
Most serious allegation per investigation, as categorized by the reporting agency. Officer-level rows list 1 officers involved.
Most serious allegation
| not provided | 1 |
|---|
Internal disposition
| not provided | 1 |
|---|
Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation
16 of 25
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Harassment/Stalking
3 of 25
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Demeanor
2 of 25
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Differential Treatment
1 of 25
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Other (3 categories)
3 of 25
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 |
Against peers, 2025
How this grade was built →| Beachwood Borough Police Department | 100.0 |
|---|---|
| County median, municipal police (29) | 100.0 |
| NJ median, municipal police (445) | 125.9 |
Investigations per 100 officers named in that year's IA investigations (the Attorney General's own "Number of Officers" field, a distinct-officer count drawn from the IA case data itself, not a department headcount). A higher number is ambiguous on its own: it can reflect more misconduct, or a stronger internal reporting culture. Medians are computed within the same agency type only.
1 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 20 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[22] = 5.0 per 100 FBI-reported sworn officers. This is a genuinely different denominator from the rate above, not a correction of it; the two should not be added or averaged together. See the methodology for why these two officer counts diverge.
Report card
Grade C: Middle fifth of peers
On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology
- Combined standing
- 44th percentile of 171 peers
- Confidence
- Medium confidence
- small agency; per-officer rates swing widely on a handful of cases
Where this agency falls among its peers
The actual spread of discipline severity across Beachwood Borough Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.
Peer group: Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=171)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–50 | 120 |
| 50–100 | 24 |
| 100–150 | 15 |
| 150–200 | 7 |
| 200–250 | 3 |
| 250–300 | 2 |
Beachwood Borough Police Department: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 25th percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=171).
How the grade is built
Three components, each a percentile within the peer group. The combined standing is their weighted mean, re-ranked among peers; the grade is the fifth of the peer group it lands in.
IA volumeweight 40%
143.0 investigations per 100 officers (multi-year mean)
Internal affairs investigations per 100 reported officers, averaged over the years where the agency reported both figures.
Discipline severityweight 40%
0.0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 officers, 2020-2025
Major discipline records weighted by sanction (termination 4, demotion 3, suspension 2, other 1) per 100 officers.
Allegation severityweight 20%
1.50 mean severity tier (1 low - 4 critical)
Mean severity tier of IA allegations across 2021-2025, using the published tier map; unknown values excluded.
What this grade can and can't tell you
- The underlying data is self-reported by agencies, one yearly snapshot at a time.
- Allegations are not findings; many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
- There is no arrest or call-volume denominator in this data, so nothing here is a per-capita misconduct rate. A genuinely independent staffing-based rate, sourced from the FBI rather than this grade's own data, appears above when available. It is a different measurement, not a more accurate version of the grade.
- A higher internal affairs volume is ambiguous: it can indicate more misconduct, or a more robust oversight and reporting culture. The grade weighs it anyway, because volume is what the record offers; that choice is published, not hidden.
- The grade is one lens. The records it reads are on this page above.
Where this agency ranks
| Metric | Value | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| IA per 100 investigated officers2025 | 100.0 | 322nd of 445 municipal police |
| IA investigations2025 | 1 | 410th of 445 municipal police |
| IA incidents2025 | 1 | 405th of 445 municipal police |
| Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year | 1.76 | 380th of 460 municipal police |
| Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-31 | 1.54x | 124th of 415 municipal police |
| OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present | 32 | 76th of 458 municipal police |
Major discipline records
No major discipline records appear for this agency in the 2020-2025 releases. Absence of records is not a finding; see the methodology for what this data does and does not cover.
Fatal encounters recorded involving this agency
From the independent Fatal Encounters dataset, 2000-2021
In brief (written by this site from the records below)
One record in the Fatal Encounters dataset names Beachwood Borough Police Department, in 2012. The dataset records the force on it, in its own as-recorded terms, as Gunshot. Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that documented deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, suicides in police presence, and medical emergencies. A record is not a finding of fault, and it is not a discipline record from the Attorney General data shown elsewhere on this page. The project stopped collecting in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen and the absence of later records reflects the end of collection.
Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021.[3] 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. A record appears here because Beachwood Borough Police Departmentis named in the record's as-reported agency field. A listing is not a misconduct finding, and it is not connected to the Attorney General discipline records above. See the methodology. Each record links to its own page with the full as-reported details.
- Mark Tanouye
July 19, 2012 · Beachwood · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot
Public records requests
Records requests about this department filed through OPRAmachine, an independent site that files Open Public Records Act requests in public and publishes the responses.[4] This is a third-party, user-generated source, separate in origin from the Attorney General records elsewhere on this page.
Current as of 12 July 2026. These figures are a point-in-time snapshot and do not update: requests filed to OPRAmachine after that date do not appear here. For live activity, see this body on OPRAmachine.
This department has no separate listing on OPRAmachine. Records requests for it are handled through Beachwood Borough, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 32 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 150 filed to Beachwood Borough are about something else and are not shown.
What happened to those requests
Statuses as recorded on OPRAmachine. They are set by the person who filed the request when they classify what came back, not by the agency and not by any court. They describe the fate of a records request and nothing else.
| Awaiting agency response | 16 |
|---|---|
| Requester reported success | 9 |
| Requester reported partial success | 4 |
| Agency said records not held | 3 |
Recent requests
The 12 most recent police-related requests to Beachwood Borough, by date and recorded status. Each was written by a member of the public. A request is a question somebody asked. It is not a finding, not an allegation this site makes, and not evidence that anything happened.
- 2026-06-22Requester reported partial success
- 2026-05-11Awaiting agency response
- 2026-03-06Requester reported partial success
- 2025-10-08Awaiting agency response
- 2025-09-02Agency said records not held
- 2025-08-14Requester reported partial success
- 2025-04-29Awaiting agency response
- 2024-11-22Awaiting agency response
- 2024-10-17Awaiting agency response
- 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
- 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
- 2021-09-21Awaiting agency response
Show what each request asked for, as the requester wrote it
These titles are quoted from OPRAmachine exactly as the requester typed them. They are the requester's words, not this site's, and some describe what the requester believed or suspected. Nothing here has been established as fact.
A member of the public requested: “BWC”
2026-06-22 · Requester reported partial success
A member of the public requested: “Police records”
2026-05-11 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Incident Report(s) and BWC Footage”
2026-03-06 · Requester reported partial success
A member of the public requested: “Police OPRA Request”
2025-10-08 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Police report”
2025-09-02 · Agency said records not held
A member of the public requested: “Beachwood Police Department Records Request”
2025-08-14 · Requester reported partial success
A member of the public requested: “Arrest reports of incident case #23BW18524”
2025-04-29 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Beachwood Police Department CAD Detail Reports with Officer narratives from 11/08/2024 to 11/15/2024”
2024-11-22 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “BWC Footage and Report on arrest of Nykie Lofton- Greene on 10/12/2024”
2024-10-17 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Purchase order history for the police department from 2020 - 2023”
2023-08-31 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Invoice of Body Camera Purchase in the Police Department”
2023-08-31 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Police body cam footage July 2021”
2021-09-21 · Awaiting agency response
File your own records request
Anyone can request records from this municipality under the Open Public Records Act. This link opens a request on OPRAmachine, pre-filled with a neutral starting point you can edit or replace before you send it. The request, and any response, will be published there.
File an OPRA request about this department
See every request filed to Beachwood Borough on OPRAmachine.
What this section can and can't tell you
- A request is not a finding. Every entry records what a member of the public asked for. None of it establishes that an agency did anything, and none of it is an allegation this site is making.
- Statuses come from the requester, not the agency. On OPRAmachine the person who filed the request classifies the response they got, so “successful” means they said they got what they asked for. It is not the agency's word and not an adjudication.
- Request volume is not a measure of misconduct. A long list usually reflects public interest, local journalism, or one determined requester. A short list usually means few people have asked.
- This covers OPRAmachine only. Most OPRA requests in New Jersey are filed directly with agencies and never appear here, so this is a floor, not a total.
- It is frozen at 12 July 2026. The figures come from a snapshot of OPRAmachine taken on that date and nothing refreshes them, so anything filed since is missing. Treat every number here as a lower bound that is only getting further out of date.
- The count is an undercount, by design. Requests to Beachwood Borough are sorted by subject line, because that custodian also handles permits, property, and code enforcement. A request that is genuinely about the police but carries a vague subject line, and many do read only “OPRA Request,” is not counted here. The sorting is this site's own reading of the request titles, not a fact from the source, and it is deliberately cautious: it would rather miss a police request than show you somebody's building permit.
The match between this OPRAmachine body and this department is this site's inference, not a certified mapping. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Beachwood Borough Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?
Beachwood Borough Police Department reported 1 officer named in internal affairs cases in 2025 and 1 investigation, a rate of 100 per 100 officers, matching the Ocean County median of 100 and running below the 125.9 median for municipal police statewide. A rate comparison carries two possible meanings, more misconduct or more thorough documentation of complaints. None of the 1 investigation detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Leading allegation categories were not reported for the year. No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Beachwood received a C on the report card, at the 44th percentile among 171 peers in the 15-29 officers group, a medium-confidence grade.
How many internal affairs investigations did Beachwood Borough Police Department report in 2025?
Beachwood Borough Police Department reported 1 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 1 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.
How many major discipline records does Beachwood Borough Police Department have?
No major discipline records appear for Beachwood Borough Police Department in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases. Absence of records is not a finding; discipline is listed only after all appeals conclude.
How many officers does Beachwood Borough Police Department have?
Beachwood Borough Police Department reported 20 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 5% of them female. That is 1.76 sworn officers per 1,000 residents. This is a different measurement from the "officers named in IA cases" figure elsewhere on this page, which counts distinct officers in that year's internal affairs investigations, not total staffing.
How many deaths during police encounters are recorded for Beachwood Borough Police Department?
The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 1 record naming Beachwood Borough Police Department, from 2012 through 2012. Fatal Encounters is a crowdsourced journalism project, not a government source, and it documented deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind. Each record links to a page showing it exactly as the project recorded it.
What does Beachwood Borough Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?
The median pensionable salary for the 20 active Beachwood Borough Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $123,174. Against the Ocean County school-staff median the ratio is 1.54x. These are pensionable base salaries: they exclude overtime, stipends, longevity and leave payouts for both groups, and a school contract year and a police work year are different lengths. TPAF covers certificated school staff, not only classroom teachers.
Sources
- [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2415. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [2]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. ↩
- [3]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/ ↩
- [4]Records-request activity for Beachwood Borough. OPRAmachine (opramachine.com), an independent public-records platform. Publicly visible requests only. Point-in-time snapshot taken 2026-07-12 from a database export dated 2026-07-11. Not updated after that date; see opramachine.com for current activity. ↩
- [5]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Beachwood Boro PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [6]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.
- [7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8509. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [8]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8509. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [9]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8509. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [10]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8509. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 379. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1398. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [13]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1904. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [14]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 882. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [15]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2415. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [16]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Beachwood Boro PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
- [17]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Beachwood Boro PD row for 2021. ↩
- [18]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Beachwood Boro PD row for 2022. ↩
- [19]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Beachwood Boro PD row for 2023. ↩
- [20]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Beachwood Boro PD row for 2024. ↩
- [21]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Beachwood Boro PD row for 2025. ↩
- [22]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8509. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [23]Ranks computed by this site over the Attorney General internal affairs agency totals and major discipline releases, within agency type. Each ranking page lists every agency and its source rows. ↩