Department profile · Monmouth County
Colts Neck Police Department
Reported as: Colts Neck 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.
Radio encryption
Colts Neck Police Department encrypts its radio communications (P25 AES-256, all operations), according to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, as of 2026-03-06 (verified).
Officers named in IA cases, 2024
1[1]
Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing
IA investigations, 2024
1[1]
Incidents, 2024
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
27[5]
36 years reported
| Year | sworn officers |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 17 |
| 1991 | 15 |
| 1992 | 14 |
| 1993 | 16 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 16 |
| 1996 | 16 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 16 |
| 1999 | 17 |
| 2000 | 18 |
| 2001 | 17 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 20 |
| 2004 | 22 |
| 2005 | 22 |
| 2006 | 22 |
| 2007 | 22 |
| 2008 | 22 |
| 2009 | 22 |
| 2010 | 20 |
| 2011 | 19 |
| 2012 | 20 |
| 2013 | 20 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 20 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 22 |
| 2018 | 21 |
| 2019 | 27 |
| 2020 | 26 |
| 2021 | 27 |
| 2022 | 25 |
| 2023 | 25 |
| 2024 | 26 |
| 2025 | 27 |
How Colts Neck 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 | 17 |
| 22–24 | 26 |
| 24–26 | 24 |
| 26–28 | 16 |
| 28–30 | 19 |
Colts Neck Police Department: 27 sworn officers: 86th 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 27 active Colts Neck Police Department officers in the file.
Median local school staff
$91,095
COLTS NECK TWP BD OF ED, 151 TPAF members
Against the local district
0.85x
Median officer to median local school staff
Against the county
0.89x
Median officer to Monmouth 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 | 8 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 1 |
Incidents
1 in 2024
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 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 · 4 reported years
| Year | share of total |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 20 |
| 2023 | 75 |
| 2024 | 100 |
Statewide, 19.5 percent of investigations reported a sustained complaint in 2025. How dispositions break down statewide.
Complaint mix, 2024
Most serious allegation per investigation, as categorized by the reporting agency. Officer-level rows list 1 officers involved.
Most serious allegation
| Other Departmental Rule Violation | 1 |
|---|
Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation
Internal disposition
| Sustained | 1 |
|---|
Allegations by year, 2021 to 2024
Other Departmental Rule Violation
11 of 18
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 |
Preventable MV accident
4 of 18
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 |
Demeanor
2 of 18
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency
1 of 18
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
Report card
Grade A: Lowest fifth of peers
On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology
- Combined standing
- 6th 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 Colts Neck 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 |
Colts Neck 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%
106.3 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%
1.17 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year | 2.71 | 160th of 460 municipal police |
| Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-31 | 0.89x | 398th of 415 municipal police |
| OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present | 34 | 65th 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.
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.[3] 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.
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 | 11 |
|---|---|
| Requester reported partial success | 10 |
| Requester reported success | 10 |
| Agency said records not held | 2 |
| Request refused | 1 |
Recent requests
The 12 most recent requests to Colts Neck Township Police Department, 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.
- 2026-04-22Awaiting agency response
- 2026-04-16Requester reported partial success
- 2026-04-15Agency said records not held
- 2026-01-10Requester reported partial success
- 2025-09-15Awaiting agency response
- 2025-05-06Awaiting agency response
- 2025-02-24Requester reported partial success
- 2025-01-17Agency said records not held
- 2024-11-26Awaiting agency response
- 2024-06-20Awaiting agency response
- 2023-05-22Awaiting agency response
- 2023-05-12Awaiting 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: “FOIA Request: Paul Caneiro — Killed brother's entire family of 4 (including children 8 & 11), set mansion on fire for $1.5M insurance”
2026-04-22 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Updated OPRA request for 114 Montrose Road.”
2026-04-16 · Requester reported partial success
A member of the public requested: “Records of all police activity for 114 Montrose Road”
2026-04-15 · Agency said records not held
A member of the public requested: “Video and police report”
2026-01-10 · Requester reported partial success
A member of the public requested: “BWC Footage”
2025-09-15 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Crime data on drug crimes and staff roster”
2025-05-06 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “OPRA Request For Bodycam Footage & Incident Reports”
2025-02-24 · Requester reported partial success
A member of the public requested: “Police Clearance Letter”
2025-01-17 · Agency said records not held
A member of the public requested: “Colts Neck Township Police Department”
2024-11-26 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Arrest reports.”
2024-06-20 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Arrest Reports - disorderly conducting individual(s)”
2023-05-22 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Colts neck police escorting colts neck ambulance on rte 18 south 5/11/23”
2023-05-12 · Awaiting agency response
File your own records request
Anyone can request records from this department 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 Colts Neck Township Police Department 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 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
How many internal affairs investigations did Colts Neck Police Department report in 2024?
Colts Neck Police Department reported 1 internal affairs investigations in 2024, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 1 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.
How many major discipline records does Colts Neck Police Department have?
No major discipline records appear for Colts Neck 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.
Does Colts Neck Police Department encrypt its radio communications?
According to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, Colts Neck Police Department encrypts all of its radio communications (P25 AES-256), as recorded on 2026-03-06. This site treats radio encryption as a transparency signal, which is analysis, not a figure from the discipline data.
How many officers does Colts Neck Police Department have?
Colts Neck Police Department reported 27 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 7.4% of them female. That is 2.71 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 Colts Neck Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?
The median pensionable salary for the 27 active Colts Neck Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $77,688. The median for the 151 TPAF-enrolled staff at COLTS NECK TWP BD OF ED is $91,095, a ratio of 0.85x. Against the Monmouth County school-staff median the ratio is 0.89x. 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 807. 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]Records-request activity for Colts Neck Township Police Department. 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. ↩
- [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 8420. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [6]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8420. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8420. 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 8420. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [9]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 303. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1321. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1827. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 807. 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 Colts Neck PD row for 2024; 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 Colts Neck PD 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 Colts Neck PD 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 Colts Neck PD 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 Colts Neck PD row for 2024. ↩
- [18]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. ↩