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Dover Police Department

Reported as: Dover PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to Dover 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

Dover Police Department is a municipal police agency in Morris County. It reported 16 officers named in internal affairs cases in 2025 and 18 investigations that year, a rate of 112.5 per 100 officers. That fell below the Morris County median of 116.7 and below the 125.9 statewide municipal median. A rate under the median can mean fewer complaints or a department that captures fewer of them in its files. Of the 18 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, with Improper Entry and Insubordination/Disobeying An Order also appearing.

Two major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2024 and 2025, including one termination. Dover received an F on the report card, at the 80th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

16[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

18[1]

Incidents, 2025

17[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

35[7]

66 years reported

35 sworn officers in 2025, up from 15 in 1960 (+133%).
Yearsworn officers
196015
196113
196215
196320
196420
196522
196622
196725
196825
196925
197026
197127
197230
197331
197431
197530
197629
197729
197831
197929
198029
198129
198227
198327
198428
198530
198630
198730
198828
198930
199029
199130
199227
199333
199434
199535
199636
199737
199837
199937
200036
200134
200236
200336
200436
200536
200634
200735
200833
200934
201033
201130
201228
201331
201431
201529
201633
201729
201835
201938
202039
202134
202234
202335
202435
202535

Civilian employees, 2025

4[8]

0.11 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

0[9]

0% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

1.84[10]

Municipal departments only

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

How Dover 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, 30-59 officers (n=111)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 30-59 officers
RangeAgencies
30–3538
35–4026
40–4516
45–5014
50–5510
55–607

Dover Police Department: 35 sworn officers: 38th percentile among Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=111).

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 36 active Dover Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$139,606[2]

36 active officers

Median local school staff

$83,055

DOVER BD OF ED, 375 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.68x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.58x

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 "DOVER 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 Dover Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202130
202240
202331
202437
202518

Incidents

17 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Dover Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202130
202231
202319
202432
202517

Officers on IA rows

17 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Dover Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202436
202517
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 Dover Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202222.5
20230
20242.703
202511.111

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 17 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Dover Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation6
Improper Entry2
Insubordination/Disobeying An Order2
Other Criminal Violation2
Neglect of Duty2
Excessive Force1
Demeanor1
Harassment/Stalking1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Improper Entry · Insubordination/Disobeying An Order · Other Criminal Violation · Neglect of Duty · Excessive Force · Demeanor · Harassment/Stalking

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Dover Police Department, 2025
not provided8
Not Sustained4
Unfounded3
Sustained2
Exonerated1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

57 of 156

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Dover Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202120
202212
20239
202410
20256

Demeanor

20 of 156

Demeanor allegations reported by Dover Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20223
20233
202412
20251

Differential Treatment

18 of 156

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Dover Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20228
20237
20242
20250

Other Criminal Violation

15 of 156

Other Criminal Violation allegations reported by Dover Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20215
20226
20230
20242
20252

Other (11 categories)

46 of 156

Other (11 categories) allegations reported by Dover Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20213
202211
202312
202411
20259

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Dover Police Department112.5
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.

18 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 35 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[22] = 51.4 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
80th percentile of 110 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Dover Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=110)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 30-59 officers
RangeAgencies
0–5073
50–10025
100–1504
150–2006
200–2501
250–3001

Dover Police Department: 29.412 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 46th percentile among Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=110).

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%

89th percentileof 110 peers

152.1 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%

46th percentileof 110 peers

29.4 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%

53rd percentileof 110 peers

2.14 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.[23] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025112.5301st of 445 municipal police
IA investigations202518121st of 445 municipal police
IA incidents202517103rd of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20252127th of 282 municipal police
Terminations2020-2025130th of 111 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year1.84357th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.58x101st of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present23143rd of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

1 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20220
20230
20241
20251

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

Major discipline records reported by Dover Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2025Anthony KellyPTLTerminatedSuspended 145 days[24]
2024Anthony KellyPTLSuspended (days not reported)[25]

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 Dover Police Department, from 2004 through 2012. In the dataset's own as-recorded terms, the force is listed as Asphyxiated/Restrained in one and Drug overdose 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.[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 Dover 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.

  • Diego Munoz-Colon

    March 8, 2012 · Dover · Highest level of force as recorded: Asphyxiated/Restrained

  • Jaime Chaverra-Bonilla

    September 28, 2004 · Dover · Highest level of force as recorded: Drug overdose

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 Town of Dover, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 23 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 104 filed to Town of Dover are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

23[4]

Identified by subject line, of 127 filed to Town of Dover

Most recent request

July 2026[4]

First recorded April 2020

Awaiting a response

15[4]

Requests with no response recorded yet

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.

Recorded outcomes of police-related records requests to Town of Dover (requests)
Awaiting agency response15
Requester reported success4
Requester reported partial success1
Under internal review1
Agency said records not held1
Delivery error1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Town of Dover, 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.

  1. 2026-07-08Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-11-02Requester reported partial success
  3. 2025-10-01Requester reported success
  4. 2025-08-16Awaiting agency response
  5. 2025-07-26Under internal review
  6. 2025-05-31Agency said records not held
  7. 2025-01-30Awaiting agency response
  8. 2024-05-09Awaiting agency response
  9. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  10. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  11. 2023-07-05Awaiting agency response
  12. 2023-06-05Requester reported success
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.

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 Town of Dover 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 Town of Dover 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 Dover Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Dover Police Department is a municipal police agency in Morris County. It reported 16 officers named in internal affairs cases in 2025 and 18 investigations that year, a rate of 112.5 per 100 officers. That fell below the Morris County median of 116.7 and below the 125.9 statewide municipal median. A rate under the median can mean fewer complaints or a department that captures fewer of them in its files. Of the 18 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, with Improper Entry and Insubordination/Disobeying An Order also appearing. Two major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2024 and 2025, including one termination. Dover received an F on the report card, at the 80th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Dover Police Department reported 18 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 16 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Dover Police Department have?

Dover Police Department 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 Dover Police Department have?

Dover Police Department reported 35 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 0% of them female. That is 1.84 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 Dover Police Department?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 2 records naming Dover Police Department, from 2004 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 Dover Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 36 active Dover Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $139,606. The median for the 375 TPAF-enrolled staff at DOVER BD OF ED is $83,055, a ratio of 1.68x. Against the Morris County school-staff median the ratio is 1.58x. 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 2381. 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]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. [4]Records-request activity for Town of Dover. 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. [5]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Dover PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  6. [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. [7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8474. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
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  12. [12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1364. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
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  16. [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 Dover PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  17. [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 Dover PD row for 2021. ↩
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  21. [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 Dover PD row for 2025. ↩
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  23. [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. ↩
  24. [24]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 484. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  25. [25]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1220. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩