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Delaware River Port Authority

Reported as: Delaware River Port AuthorityOther agency

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

Delaware River Port Authority, classified as an other agency and grouped with Camden County, reported 28 internal affairs investigations in 2025 and 23 officers named in those cases. Its rate of 121.7 per 100 officers matched the county median and sat close to the 121.6 median for its agency type. Similar rates settle little on their own, since volume tracks record-keeping as well as conduct. Nine of the 28 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, followed by Demeanor and Neglect of Duty.

Thirteen major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023, 2024 and 2025, including two terminations. The site does not grade the authority, because it has too few peers: only 6 agencies sit in its group of all other agencies.

Written by this site strictly from the figures on this page; every number is cited below.

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

23[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

28[1]

Incidents, 2025

20[1]

Major discipline records

13

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

122[5]

7 years reported

122 sworn officers in 2025, down from 132 in 2019 (-8%).
Yearsworn officers
2019132
2020132
2021132
2022122
2023122
2024122
2025122

Civilian employees, 2025

21[6]

0.17 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

8[7]

6.6% of sworn officers

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

Internal affairs investigations reported by Delaware River Port Authority, by year
Categorycounts
202139
202222
202335
202440
202528

Incidents

20 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Delaware River Port Authority, by year
Yearcounts
202131
202218
202320
202429
202520

Officers on IA rows

28 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Delaware River Port Authority, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202440
202528
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 Delaware River Port Authority, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202250
202331.429
202440
202532.143

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 28 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Delaware River Port Authority, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation9
Demeanor3
Neglect of Duty2
Preventable MV Accident2
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency2
not provided1
Improper Arrest1
Other Criminal Violation1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Neglect of Duty · Preventable MV Accident · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency · Improper Arrest · Other Criminal Violation

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Delaware River Port Authority, 2025
Exonerated14
Sustained9
Administratively Closed2
Unfounded1
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

51 of 164

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Delaware River Port Authority, by year
Yearcounts
202129
20222
20232
20249
20259

Demeanor

19 of 164

Demeanor allegations reported by Delaware River Port Authority, by year
Yearcounts
20215
20221
20235
20245
20253

Preventable MV Accident

13 of 164

Preventable MV Accident allegations reported by Delaware River Port Authority, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20225
20234
20242
20252

Neglect of Duty

12 of 164

Neglect of Duty allegations reported by Delaware River Port Authority, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20235
20244
20252

Other (14 categories)

69 of 164

Other (14 categories) allegations reported by Delaware River Port Authority, by year
Yearcounts
20215
202213
202319
202420
202512

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Delaware River Port Authority121.7
County median, other agency (1)121.7
NJ median, other agency (4)121.6

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.

28 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 122 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[19] = 23.0 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

Not graded: too few peers

Fewer than 8 comparable agencies (all other agencies); a percentile grade would be noise.

Confidence
High confidence

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%

not computable

134.1 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%

not computable

118.1 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%

not computable

1.97 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.[20] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025121.72nd of 4 other agency
IA investigations2025281st of 4 other agency
IA incidents2025201st of 4 other agency
Major discipline2020-2025131st of 3 other agency
Terminations2020-202521st of 2 other agency

Major discipline records

6 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20220
20233
20244
20256

6 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.

Major discipline records reported by Delaware River Port Authority, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2025Richard CiacciaPolice OfficerSuspended 45 days[21]
2025Emerson LewisSergeantDemoted[22]
2025Ollie MillerPolice OfficerTerminated[23]
2025Anthony PatitucciPolice OfficerSuspended 2 days[24]
2025Brian ReedPolice OfficerSeparated while IA pending[25]
2025Richard RidolfiPolice OfficerSuspended 5 days[26]
2024Anthony PatitucciPolice OfficerOther sanction[27]
2024Justin CogbillPolice OfficerSuspended 3 days[28]
2024Nicholas KinKadePolice OfficerSuspended 10 days[29]
2024Alan KuterbachPolice OfficerSeparated while IA pending[30]
2023Michael ReherSergeantSeparated while IA pending[31]
2023Nicholas KinKadePolice OfficerSuspended 90 days[32]
2023John WallsRecruitTerminated[33]

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)

Two records in the Fatal Encounters dataset name Delaware River Port Authority, from 2006 through 2013. In the dataset's own as-recorded terms, the force is listed as Drug overdose in one and Gunshot in one. The dataset comes from Fatal Encounters, an independent crowdsourced journalism project that logged deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, overdoses, and medical emergencies. A record means a death occurred during an encounter with the agency named in the as-reported agency field; it is not a finding of fault. Collection ended in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen at that point and later years are simply not covered.

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 Delaware River Port Authorityis 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.

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 Delaware River Port Authority's internal affairs and discipline record?

Delaware River Port Authority, classified as an other agency and grouped with Camden County, reported 28 internal affairs investigations in 2025 and 23 officers named in those cases. Its rate of 121.7 per 100 officers matched the county median and sat close to the 121.6 median for its agency type. Similar rates settle little on their own, since volume tracks record-keeping as well as conduct. Nine of the 28 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, followed by Demeanor and Neglect of Duty. Thirteen major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023, 2024 and 2025, including two terminations. The site does not grade the authority, because it has too few peers: only 6 agencies sit in its group of all other agencies.

How many internal affairs investigations did Delaware River Port Authority report in 2025?

Delaware River Port Authority reported 28 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 23 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Delaware River Port Authority have?

Delaware River Port Authority has 13 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 2 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How many officers does Delaware River Port Authority have?

Delaware River Port Authority reported 122 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 6.6% 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 Delaware River Port Authority?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 2 records naming Delaware River Port Authority, from 2006 through 2013. 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

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  2. [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/ ↩
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