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Chester Police Department

Reported as: Chester PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Not a civil service jurisdiction

This department is not among the NJCSC Appendix A jurisdictions, so major discipline here follows a different statutory track (generally N.J.S.A. 40A:14 for municipal police), with appeals that usually go to the Superior Court rather than the Civil Service Commission.

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

Chester Police Department, a municipal police agency in Morris County, logged 10 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 7 officers named in those cases. The rate of 142.9 per 100 officers ran above the Morris County median of 116.7 and the 125.9 municipal median statewide. That margin can mean more misconduct or a department that writes up a larger share of the complaints it takes in. Of the 10 investigations detailed for 2025, 3 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, ahead of Demeanor and Other Criminal Violation.

No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Chester received a C on the report card, at the 42nd 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

7[1]

Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing

IA investigations, 2025

10[1]

Incidents, 2025

7[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

0[5]

58 years reported

0 sworn officers in 2025, down from 3 in 1968 (-100%).
Yearsworn officers
19683
19694
19705
19716
19727
19739
19749
19759
197610
197711
197811
197913
198013
198111
198211
198312
198412
198514
198614
198716
198817
198919
199019
199118
199217
199317
199415
199515
199614
199715
199815
199914
200014
200114
200215
200316
200416
200516
200616
200716
200816
200915
201015
201117
201215
201315
201416
201516
201616
201722
201822
201923
202023
202123
202224
202321
202421
20250

Civilian employees, 2025

0[6]

Female sworn officers, 2025

0[7]

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

0[8]

Municipal departments only

AnalysisComputed by this site from LEE reported totals; not an official statistic.

How Chester 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, 1-14 officers (n=100)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 1-14 officers
RangeAgencies
0–212
2–43
4–61
6–817
8–1011
10–1215
12–1441

Chester Police Department: 0 sworn officers: 6th percentile among Municipal police, 1-14 officers (n=100).

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 comparison

A separate dataset from the discipline records above: NJ Treasury pension salaries as of March 31, 2026, for the 22 active Chester Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$127,345[2]

22 active officers

Median local school staff

$87,474

CHESTER TWP BD OF ED, 129 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.46x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.44x

Median officer to Morris County school-staff median

AnalysisEvery ratio here is computed by this site from as-reported pensionable salaries. The local school figure comes from the pension employer "CHESTER TWP BD OF ED", linked to this municipality only because exactly one district in the county resolves to it. A pay comparison is not a statement about either budget. The full county comparison, including the distribution and the tenure-adjusted figure, is on the Morris County pay page.

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

Internal affairs investigations reported by Chester Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
20214
20226
20238
202415
202510

Incidents

7 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Chester Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20214
20226
20238
202411
20257

Officers on IA rows

10 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Chester Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202414
202510
Analysis

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

Share of internal affairs investigations sustained by Chester Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202250
202312.5
202426.667
202530

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 10 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Chester Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation5
Demeanor4
Other Criminal Violation1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Other Criminal Violation

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Chester Police Department, 2025
Exonerated5
Sustained3
Not Sustained1
not provided1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

AnalysisRanked and folded by this site. The counts inside each panel are as reported.

Other Departmental Rule Violation

18 of 43

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Chester Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20220
20232
202410
20255

Demeanor

12 of 43

Demeanor allegations reported by Chester Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20222
20235
20240
20254

False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal)

5 of 43

False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal) allegations reported by Chester Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20230
20245
20250

Attendance issues

3 of 43

Attendance issues allegations reported by Chester Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20222
20231
20240
20250

Other (4 categories)

5 of 43

Other (4 categories) allegations reported by Chester Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20222
20230
20240
20251

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Chester Police Department142.9
County median, municipal police (35)116.7
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.

AnalysisA second, independent rate using FBI-reported staffing instead.

10 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 0 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[20] = Infinity 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
42nd 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 Chester 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)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 15-29 officers
RangeAgencies
0–50120
50–10024
100–15015
150–2007
200–2503
250–3002

Chester 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%

77th percentileof 171 peers

135.6 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%

25th percentileof 171 peers

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%

24th percentileof 171 peers

1.71 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

AnalysisRankings compare agencies of the same type only, on figures as reported. A high rank is reported volume, not a verdict.[21] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025142.9146th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations202510211th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20257228th of 445 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year0.00449th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.44x176th of 415 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.

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 Chester Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Chester Police Department, a municipal police agency in Morris County, logged 10 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 7 officers named in those cases. The rate of 142.9 per 100 officers ran above the Morris County median of 116.7 and the 125.9 municipal median statewide. That margin can mean more misconduct or a department that writes up a larger share of the complaints it takes in. Of the 10 investigations detailed for 2025, 3 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, ahead of Demeanor and Other Criminal Violation. No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Chester received a C on the report card, at the 42nd percentile among 171 peers in the 15-29 officers group, a medium-confidence grade.

How many internal affairs investigations did Chester Police Department report in 2025?

Chester Police Department reported 10 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 7 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Chester Police Department have?

No major discipline records appear for Chester 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 Chester Police Department have?

Chester Police Department reported 0 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025. That is 0 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.

What does Chester Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 22 active Chester Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $127,345. The median for the 129 TPAF-enrolled staff at CHESTER TWP BD OF ED is $87,474, a ratio of 1.46x. Against the Morris County school-staff median the ratio is 1.44x. 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. [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2379. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [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. [3]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Chester PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  4. [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.
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  21. [21]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. ↩