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Franklin Township Police Department

Reported as: Franklin Twp 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

6[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

8[1]

Incidents, 2025

5[1]

Major discipline records

1

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

7[4]

55 years reported

7 sworn officers in 2025, up from 5 in 1970 (+40%).
Yearsworn officers
19705
19715
19721
19732
19742
19752
19762
19772
19782
19792
19802
19812
19822
19832
19843
19853
19863
19874
19884
19896
19906
19917
19926
19936
19944
19954
19964
19975
19986
19995
20006
20016
20026
20036
20046
20056
20066
20076
20087
20096
20105
20115
20125
2013not reported
20145
20155
20166
20176
20186
20196
20206
20216
20226
20236
20247
20257

Civilian employees, 2025

0[5]

0 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

0[6]

0% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

2.11[7]

Municipal departments only

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

How Franklin Township 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)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 1-14 officers
RangeAgencies
0–213
2–43
4–61
6–816
8–1011
10–1215
12–1441

Franklin Township Police Department: 7 sworn officers: 28th 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 Franklin Township 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 Hunterdon 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 Franklin Township Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
20214
20221
20232
20258

Incidents

5 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Franklin Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20213
20221
20232
20255
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 Franklin Township Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
2022100
202350
20250

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 8 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Franklin Township Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation4
Demeanor2
Other Criminal Violation1
Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Other Criminal Violation · Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Franklin Township Police Department, 2025
not provided5
Not Sustained2
Sustained1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

9 of 15

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Franklin Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20214
20221
20230
2024not reported
20254

Demeanor

4 of 15

Demeanor allegations reported by Franklin Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20232
2024not reported
20252

Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise

1 of 15

Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise allegations reported by Franklin Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20230
2024not reported
20251

Other Criminal Violation

1 of 15

Other Criminal Violation allegations reported by Franklin Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20230
2024not reported
20251

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Franklin Township Police Department133.3
County median, municipal police (14)129.3
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.

8 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 7 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[17] = 114.3 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 D: Second-highest fifth

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
75th percentile of 100 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 Franklin Township 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)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 1-14 officers
RangeAgencies
0–5074
50–1006
100–1508
150–2002
200–2504
250–3002
300–3504

Franklin Township Police Department: 72.727 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 76th 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%

75th percentileof 100 peers

141.7 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%

76th percentileof 100 peers

72.7 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%

13th percentileof 100 peers

1.53 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.[18] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025133.3183rd of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20258245th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20255267th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20251184th of 282 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year2.11292nd of 460 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present13325th 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
20240
20251

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

Major discipline records reported by Franklin Township Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2025Kevin BollaroSergeantSuspended (days not reported)[19]

Every name links to the officer's record page with the agency's full synopsis and citation.

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.[2] 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 Franklin Township (Hunterdon), 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 27 filed to Franklin Township (Hunterdon) are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

13[2]

Identified by subject line, of 40 filed to Franklin Township (Hunterdon)

Most recent request

January 2026[2]

First recorded May 2020

Awaiting a response

11[2]

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 Franklin Township (Hunterdon) (requests)
Awaiting agency response11
Requester reported success1
Requester reported partial success1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Franklin Township (Hunterdon), 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. 2026-01-30Awaiting agency response
  2. 2026-01-02Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-08-29Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-02-18Awaiting agency response
  5. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  6. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  7. 2022-11-30Awaiting agency response
  8. 2021-04-20Requester 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 Franklin Township (Hunterdon) 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 Franklin Township (Hunterdon) 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 Franklin Township Police Department report in 2025?

Franklin Township Police Department reported 8 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 6 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Franklin Township Police Department have?

Franklin Township Police Department has 1 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 0 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How many officers does Franklin Township Police Department have?

Franklin Township Police Department reported 7 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 0% of them female. That is 2.11 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.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2275. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]Records-request activity for Franklin Township (Hunterdon). 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. ↩
  3. [3]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.
  4. [4]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8358. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  5. [5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8358. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  6. [6]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8358. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  7. [7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8358. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  8. [8]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 243. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  9. [9]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1260. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  10. [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1765. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  11. [11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2275. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  12. [12]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 Franklin Twp PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  13. [13]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 Franklin Twp PD row for 2021. ↩
  14. [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 Franklin Twp PD row for 2022. ↩
  15. [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 Franklin Twp PD row for 2023. ↩
  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 Franklin Twp PD row for 2025. ↩
  17. [17]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8358. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  18. [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. ↩
  19. [19]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 416. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩