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Englewood Cliffs Police Department

Reported as: Englewood Cliffs 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.

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

2[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

3[1]

Incidents, 2025

3[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

25[7]

64 years reported

25 sworn officers in 2025, up from 10 in 1961 (+150%).
Yearsworn officers
196110
196210
196312
196414
196513
196616
196717
196818
196921
197023
197125
197227
197326
197427
197526
197625
197726
197826
197926
198026
198126
198225
198325
198426
198526
198626
198726
198827
198926
199026
199126
199226
199325
199426
199526
199625
199725
199823
199924
200024
200127
200228
200328
200427
200527
200624
200727
200826
200924
201023
201121
201226
2013not reported
201426
201526
201625
201725
201825
201921
202021
202125
202224
202326
202425
202525

Civilian employees, 2025

1[8]

0.04 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

0[9]

0% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

4.57[10]

Municipal departments only

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

How Englewood Cliffs 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)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 15-29 officers
RangeAgencies
14–1617
16–1820
18–2027
20–2217
22–2426
24–2623
26–2817
28–3019

Englewood Cliffs Police Department: 25 sworn officers: 75th 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 comparison

A separate dataset from the discipline records above: NJ Treasury pension salaries as of March 31, 2026, for the 26 active Englewood Cliffs Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$175,980[3]

26 active officers

Median local school staff

$94,209

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS BD OF ED, 65 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.87x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.92x

Median officer to Bergen 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 "ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS 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 Bergen County pay page.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

In brief

Written by this site from the figures below.

Englewood Cliffs Police Department received five recorded line items of federal surplus equipment in 2005, all under Guns, through 30mm, with a recorded value of $2,495 in original Department of Defense acquisition cost rather than current or market value. All five fall in a category this site classes as tactical. The record describes what the department received two decades ago, not what it holds today, and non-controlled items may be disposed of after one year. Receiving surplus equipment through the federal program is not misconduct, and this data is separate in origin from the Attorney General discipline records on this page. This site's Militarization Index, an analysis and not an official statistic, puts Englewood Cliffs PD at $100 per officer, in the 73rd percentile among 167 agencies in the 15-29 officers band, where a higher index is not automatically worse.

Surplus military equipment transferred to this agency under the Defense Department's 1033 program, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency.

Total recorded value

$2,495[2]

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$2,495[2]

5 of 5 line items classed tactical

Transfer window

2005[2]

Earliest to latest recorded ship date

Quantities received, by unit of issue: 5 items (Each). Units of issue differ (an item and a kit are not the same thing), so no single combined item count exists.

Top categories by recorded value

Top 1033 equipment categories received by Englewood Cliffs Police Department, by recorded value (original DoD acquisition cost, dollars)
Guns, through 30mm2,495 tactical

Categories received: tactical vs mundane

Each category is classed tactical or mundane by this site's published classification of its Federal Supply Class. Much of what moves through the program is mundane surplus (tools, office and medical equipment); the tactical rows are what the Militarization Index below measures.

1033 equipment categories received by Englewood Cliffs Police Department, grouped tactical vs mundane
CategoryClassLine itemsQuantity receivedRecorded value (original cost)
Guns, through 30mmWeapons · FSC 1005Tactical55 items (Each)$2,495

Every recorded transfer

Equipment class

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1033 program transfers recorded for Englewood Cliffs Police Department, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency
ItemCategoryQtyRecorded valueOriginal DoD cost
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2005-06-27 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2005-06-27 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2005-06-27 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2005-06-27 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2005-06-27 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499

5 of 5 recorded transfers shown. Quantities are per unit of issue and are never summed across units. DEMIL code A: non-controlled property, may be disposed of after one year (so a listed item is not necessarily still held). Codes such as C, D, F, and Q: controlled property with federal return or demilitarization requirements.

AnalysisMilitarization Index: computed by this site, not an official statistic.

Englewood Cliffs Police Department received $100 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 73rd percentile among municipal police agencies of similar size (15-29 officers, n=167).

Peer group: Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=167)

Tactical 1033 value per sworn officer: Municipal police, 15-29 officers
RangeAgencies
0–5000147
5000–1000013
10000–150004
15000–200001
20000–250000
25000–300001

Englewood Cliffs Police Department: 100 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 73rd percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=167).

A higher index is not automatically worse. It divides cumulative transfers over the covered window by current staffing, so it measures how intensively an agency has participated in the program, not what it holds today. See the methodology.

Statewide totals, per-county rollups, and the top categories across all of New Jersey are on the 1033 program overview.

Internal affairs investigations by year

counts

Internal affairs investigations reported by Englewood Cliffs Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
20213
20221
20241
20253

Incidents

3 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Englewood Cliffs Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20213
20221
20241
20253

Officers on IA rows

3 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Englewood Cliffs Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
20241
20253
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 · 4 reported years

Share of internal affairs investigations sustained by Englewood Cliffs Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
20220
2024100
202566.667

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

Most serious allegations reported by Englewood Cliffs Police Department, 2025
Demeanor2
Assault1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Demeanor · Assault

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Englewood Cliffs Police Department, 2025
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

4 of 8

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Englewood Cliffs Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20221
2023not reported
20241
20250

Demeanor

2 of 8

Demeanor allegations reported by Englewood Cliffs Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
2023not reported
20240
20252

Assault

1 of 8

Assault allegations reported by Englewood Cliffs Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
2023not reported
20240
20251

Differential Treatment

1 of 8

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Englewood Cliffs Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20220
2023not reported
20240
20250
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Englewood Cliffs Police Department150.0
County median, municipal police (60)125.3
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.

3 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 25 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[20] = 12.0 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

Grade B: Second-lowest fifth

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
39th 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 Englewood Cliffs 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

Englewood Cliffs 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%

63rd percentileof 171 peers

125.0 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%

38th percentileof 171 peers

1.88 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 officers2025150.098th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20253348th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20253333rd of 445 municipal police
Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30$100134th of 163 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year4.5745th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.92x7th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present13325th 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.[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 Englewood Cliffs Borough, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 13 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 44 filed to Englewood Cliffs Borough are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

13[4]

Identified by subject line, of 57 filed to Englewood Cliffs Borough

Most recent request

December 2025[4]

First recorded May 2020

Awaiting a response

10[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 Englewood Cliffs Borough (requests)
Awaiting agency response10
Requester reported success2
Requester reported partial success1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Englewood Cliffs Borough, 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. 2025-12-15Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-10-05Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-09-13Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-03-14Awaiting agency response
  5. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  6. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  7. 2021-04-20Requester reported success
  8. 2020-08-29Requester reported success
  9. 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
  10. 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
  11. 2020-05-27Awaiting agency response
  12. 2020-05-27Awaiting 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.

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 Englewood Cliffs Borough 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 Englewood Cliffs Borough 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

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

Englewood Cliffs Police Department reported 3 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 2 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Englewood Cliffs Police Department have?

No major discipline records appear for Englewood Cliffs 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 Englewood Cliffs Police Department have?

Englewood Cliffs Police Department reported 25 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 0% of them female. That is 4.57 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 military surplus equipment has Englewood Cliffs Police Department received through the 1033 program?

Englewood Cliffs Police Department received 5 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program in 2005, with a total recorded value of $2,495 (original DoD acquisition cost, not current or market value). The largest category by recorded value was: Guns, through 30mm. Transfers are as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency as of 2026-06-30; equipment acquired through the program is not necessarily still held.

What is the total recorded value of the 1033 equipment Englewood Cliffs Police Department received?

The surplus equipment recorded for Englewood Cliffs Police Department under the 1033 program totals $2,495 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $2,495 is in categories this site classes as tactical (5 of 5 line items). These are original-cost figures at the time of transfer, not current or market value.

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

The median pensionable salary for the 26 active Englewood Cliffs Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $175,980. The median for the 65 TPAF-enrolled staff at ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS BD OF ED is $94,209, a ratio of 1.87x. Against the Bergen County school-staff median the ratio is 1.92x. 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 2072. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09.
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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.