Department profile · Essex County
Essex County College Police Department
Reported as: Essex County College PDMunicipal police
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.
Officers named in IA cases, 2021
3[1]
Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing
IA investigations, 2021
4[1]
Incidents, 2021
4[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, 2023
5[3]
16 years reported
| Year | sworn officers |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 13 |
| 2009 | 13 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 10 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 12 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 5 |
How Essex County College 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)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–2 | 13 |
| 2–4 | 3 |
| 4–6 | 0 |
| 6–8 | 17 |
| 8–10 | 11 |
| 10–12 | 15 |
| 12–14 | 41 |
Essex County College Police Department: 5 sworn officers: 16th 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
No median officer salary is published for Essex County College Police Department. A department needs at least 10 active officers resolved to it in the NJ Treasury pension file before this site shows a median. That threshold is about the stability of the figure, not about the department. The county-level comparison is on the Essex 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
| Category | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 |
Complaint mix, 2021
Most serious allegation per investigation, as categorized by the reporting agency.
Most serious allegation
| Other Departmental Rule Violation | 4 |
|---|
Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation
Internal disposition
| Administratively Closed | 3 |
|---|---|
| not provided | 1 |
Report card
Grade B: Second-lowest fifth
On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology
- Combined standing
- 27th percentile of 100 peers
- Confidence
- Medium confidence
- only 1 year(s) with both investigations and officer counts reported
- 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 Essex County College Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.
Peer group: Municipal police, 1-14 officers (n=100)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–50 | 74 |
| 50–100 | 6 |
| 100–150 | 8 |
| 150–200 | 2 |
| 200–250 | 4 |
| 250–300 | 2 |
| 300–350 | 4 |
Essex County College Police Department: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 34th percentile among Municipal police, 1-14 officers (n=100).
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%
133.3 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%
1.00 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.
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
How many internal affairs investigations did Essex County College Police Department report in 2021?
Essex County College Police Department reported 4 internal affairs investigations in 2021, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 3 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.
How many major discipline records does Essex County College Police Department have?
No major discipline records appear for Essex County College 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 Essex County College Police Department have?
Essex County College Police Department reported 5 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2023, 20% 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.
Sources
- [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 185. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [2]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.
- [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 39705. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [4]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 39705. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 39705. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [6]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 185. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [7]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 Essex County College PD row for 2021; row 1 is the header. ↩