Department profile · Cape May County
Cape May County Prosecutor's Office
Reported as: Cape May Co Prosecutors OfficeCounty prosecutor
Jurisdiction context
Civil service status not verified
We could not match this agency to the NJCSC roster with confidence. Whether the Title 4A framework applies here is not asserted either way.
See the context on non-civil-service departments.
Reflects the NJCSC Appendix A roster as of 2026-07-04. Context only, not legal advice.
In brief
Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, a county prosecutor agency in Cape May County, reported 3 internal affairs investigations in 2025 and 3 officers named in those cases. The rate of 100 per 100 officers matched the Cape May County median of 100 and fell below the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies. That reading is not conclusive, since a lower rate can mean less misconduct or a smaller share of complaints entering the record. Of the 3 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation, Demeanor and False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal) were the allegation categories listed.
Two major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023 and 2025, including one termination. The office received an F on the report card, at the 90th percentile among 21 peers in the all prosecutor agencies 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
3[1]
Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing
IA investigations, 2025
3[1]
Incidents, 2025
3[1]
Major discipline records
2
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
37[5]
50 years reported
| Year | sworn officers |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 9 |
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1978 | 15 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 11 |
| 1981 | 11 |
| 1982 | 14 |
| 1983 | 14 |
| 1984 | 16 |
| 1985 | 15 |
| 1986 | 10 |
| 1987 | 11 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 12 |
| 1990 | 14 |
| 1991 | 13 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 13 |
| 1994 | 14 |
| 1995 | 18 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 17 |
| 1999 | 17 |
| 2000 | 18 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 19 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 19 |
| 2005 | 21 |
| 2006 | 29 |
| 2007 | 33 |
| 2008 | 36 |
| 2009 | 36 |
| 2010 | 36 |
| 2011 | 37 |
| 2012 | 36 |
| 2013 | 40 |
| 2014 | 42 |
| 2015 | 43 |
| 2016 | 43 |
| 2017 | 45 |
| 2018 | 43 |
| 2019 | 43 |
| 2020 | 43 |
| 2021 | 40 |
| 2022 | 41 |
| 2023 | 38 |
| 2024 | 37 |
| 2025 | 37 |
How Cape May County Prosecutor's Office's sworn staffing compares with its real peer group (same agency type, similar size band), not an assumed bell curve.
Peer group: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–50 | 8 |
| 50–100 | 9 |
| 100–150 | 3 |
Cape May County Prosecutor's Office: 37 sworn officers: 36th percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20).
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.
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 | 4 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 |
Incidents
3 in 2025
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 |
Officers on IA rows
3 in 2025
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | not reported |
| 2022 | not reported |
| 2023 | not reported |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 |
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 | 50 |
| 2023 | 33.333 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 66.667 |
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 3 officers involved.
Most serious allegation
| Other Departmental Rule Violation | 1 |
|---|---|
| Demeanor | 1 |
| False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal) | 1 |
Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal)
Internal disposition
| Sustained | 2 |
|---|---|
| Unfounded | 1 |
Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation
11 of 21
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 |
Demeanor
3 of 21
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 |
False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal)
2 of 21
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 |
False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal)
2 of 21
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Other (2 categories)
3 of 21
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Against peers, 2025
How this grade was built →| Cape May County Prosecutor's Office | 100.0 |
|---|---|
| County median, county prosecutor (1) | 100.0 |
| NJ median, county prosecutor (21) | 107.5 |
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.
3 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 37 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[19] = 8.1 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 F: Highest fifth of peers
On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology
- Combined standing
- 90th percentile of 21 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 Cape May County Prosecutor's Office's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.
Peer group: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=21)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–100 | 16 |
| 100–200 | 2 |
| 200–300 | 2 |
| 300–400 | 1 |
Cape May County Prosecutor's Office: 200 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 88th percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=21).
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%
134.7 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%
200.0 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%
1.76 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 | 12th of 21 county prosecutor |
| IA investigations2025 | 3 | 17th of 21 county prosecutor |
| IA incidents2025 | 3 | 16th of 21 county prosecutor |
| Major discipline2020-2025 | 2 | 7th of 16 county prosecutor |
| Terminations2020-2025 | 1 | 2nd of 4 county prosecutor |
Major discipline records
| Year | major discipline records |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 |
1 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.
Every name links to the officer's record page with the agency's full synopsis and citation.
Fatal encounters recorded involving this agency
From the independent Fatal Encounters dataset, 2000-2021
In brief (written by this site from the records below)
A single record in the Fatal Encounters dataset names Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, dated 2018. The dataset gives the force label, as recorded, as Gunshot. Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that documented deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, deaths in police presence, and medical emergencies. A record is not a finding of fault against the agency or any officer, and it is not connected to the Attorney General discipline records elsewhere on this page. The project stopped collecting in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen and nothing after that date appears here.
Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021.[2] 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 Cape May County Prosecutor's Officeis 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.
- Jacob Servais
October 18, 2018 · Vineland · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot
Public records requests
No records-request history is shown for this department. OPRAmachine, an independent site that files and publishes Open Public Records Act requests, has no public body that confidently matches this department, so this site does not assert one. That does not mean nobody has requested records from it. (Checked against a snapshot of OPRAmachine taken 12 July 2026.) See the methodology for how the match is made.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Cape May County Prosecutor's Office's internal affairs and discipline record?
Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, a county prosecutor agency in Cape May County, reported 3 internal affairs investigations in 2025 and 3 officers named in those cases. The rate of 100 per 100 officers matched the Cape May County median of 100 and fell below the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies. That reading is not conclusive, since a lower rate can mean less misconduct or a smaller share of complaints entering the record. Of the 3 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation, Demeanor and False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal) were the allegation categories listed. Two major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023 and 2025, including one termination. The office received an F on the report card, at the 90th percentile among 21 peers in the all prosecutor agencies group, a medium-confidence grade.
How many internal affairs investigations did Cape May County Prosecutor's Office report in 2025?
Cape May County Prosecutor's Office reported 3 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 3 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.
How many major discipline records does Cape May County Prosecutor's Office have?
Cape May County Prosecutor's Office has 2 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 1 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How many officers does Cape May County Prosecutor's Office have?
Cape May County Prosecutor's Office reported 37 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 32.4% of them female. 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 Cape May County Prosecutor's Office?
The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 1 record naming Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, from 2018 through 2018. 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.
Sources
- [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2193. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [2]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/ ↩
- [3]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Cape May Co Prosecutors Office row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [4]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.
- [5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8279. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
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- [12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2193. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [13]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 Cape May Co Prosecutors Office row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
- [14]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 Cape May Co Prosecutors Office row for 2021. ↩
- [15]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 Cape May Co Prosecutors Office row for 2022. ↩
- [16]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 Cape May Co Prosecutors Office row for 2023. ↩
- [17]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 Cape May Co Prosecutors Office row for 2024. ↩
- [18]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 Cape May Co Prosecutors Office row for 2025. ↩
- [19]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8279. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [20]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. ↩
- [21]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 259. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
- [22]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1615. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩