Department profile · Gloucester County
Gloucester County Sheriff's Department
Reported as: Gloucester Co Sheriffs DeptCounty sheriff
Jurisdiction context
Civil service jurisdiction
Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to Gloucester County on the New Jersey Civil Service Commission roster.
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Reflects the NJCSC Appendix A roster as of 2026-07-04. Context only, not legal advice.
In brief
The Gloucester County Sheriff's Department reported 9 internal affairs investigations in 2025 and 9 officers named in those cases, down from 14 investigations in 2024. Its rate of 100 per 100 officers matched the county median of 100 and fell below the 115.2 median for sheriff agencies. The comparison cuts both ways, since a higher rate can mean more misconduct or a fuller record of complaints. Four of the 9 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading category with 3, followed by False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal) with 2 and Domestic violence (Non-Criminal) with 1.
Eight major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022, 2023 and 2024, none of them terminations. The department received an F on the report card, at the 83rd percentile among 21 peers in the group of all sheriff agencies, a medium-confidence grade.
Written by this site strictly from the figures on this page; every number is cited below.
Officers named in IA cases, 2025
9[1]
Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing
IA investigations, 2025
9[1]
Incidents, 2025
9[1]
Major discipline records
8
All years, 2020-2025
Staffing
Staffing data not available. The FBI's national staffing census (LEE) does not separately track county corrections facilities, sheriff's offices, or other county agencies in New Jersey -- only a single statewide Department of Corrections figure exists in that data. See the methodology for what FBI staffing data does and does not cover.
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
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 13 | 22 | 14 | 9 |
Complaint mix, 2025
Most serious allegation per investigation, as categorized by the reporting agency. Officer-level rows list 9 officers involved.
Most serious allegation
| Other Departmental Rule Violation | 3 |
|---|---|
| False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal) | 2 |
| Domestic violence (Non-Criminal) | 1 |
| Excessive Force | 1 |
| Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency | 1 |
| not provided | 1 |
Internal disposition
| Sustained | 4 |
|---|---|
| Unfounded | 2 |
| Not Sustained | 1 |
| not provided | 1 |
| Exonerated | 1 |
Against peers, 2025
How this grade was built →| Gloucester County Sheriff's Department | 100.0 |
|---|---|
| County median, county sheriff (1) | 100.0 |
| NJ median, county sheriff (20) | 115.2 |
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.
Report card
Grade F: Highest fifth of peers
On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology
- Combined standing
- 83rd percentile of 21 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 Gloucester County Sheriff's Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.
Peer group: County sheriff, all sheriff agencies (n=21)
Gloucester County Sheriff's Department: 109.589 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 74th percentile among County sheriff, all sheriff agencies (n=21).
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–50 | 6 |
| 50–100 | 8 |
| 100–150 | 6 |
| 150–200 | 0 |
| 200–250 | 1 |
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%
114.1 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%
109.6 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%
1.86 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
| Year | major discipline records |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 |
0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
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 the Gloucester County Sheriff's Department, one from 2005 and one from 2019. The as-recorded level of force is listed as Gunshot in both. Fatal Encounters was an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that logged deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, deaths by suicide in police presence, and medical emergencies. A record is not a finding of fault, and it does not say police caused the death. The project stopped collecting in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen at that point.
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 Gloucester County Sheriff's 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.
- William J. Owens
January 14, 2019 · Swedesboro · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot
- John Bartolett
July 13, 2005 · West Deptford · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot
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 Gloucester County Sheriff's Department's internal affairs and discipline record?
The Gloucester County Sheriff's Department reported 9 internal affairs investigations in 2025 and 9 officers named in those cases, down from 14 investigations in 2024. Its rate of 100 per 100 officers matched the county median of 100 and fell below the 115.2 median for sheriff agencies. The comparison cuts both ways, since a higher rate can mean more misconduct or a fuller record of complaints. Four of the 9 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading category with 3, followed by False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal) with 2 and Domestic violence (Non-Criminal) with 1. Eight major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022, 2023 and 2024, none of them terminations. The department received an F on the report card, at the 83rd percentile among 21 peers in the group of all sheriff agencies, a medium-confidence grade.
How many internal affairs investigations did Gloucester County Sheriff's Department report in 2025?
Gloucester County Sheriff's Department reported 9 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 9 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.
How many major discipline records does Gloucester County Sheriff's Department have?
Gloucester County Sheriff's Department has 8 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 deaths during police encounters are recorded for Gloucester County Sheriff's Department?
The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 2 records naming Gloucester County Sheriff's Department, from 2005 through 2019. 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
- [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2241. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [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/ ↩
- [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]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 212. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [5]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1226. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [6]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1734. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [7]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 718. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [8]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2241. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [9]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 Gloucester Co Sheriffs Dept row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
- [10]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1090. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
- [11]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1091. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
- [12]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1092. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
- [13]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1093. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
- [14]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1683. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
- [15]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1684. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
- [16]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2190. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
- [17]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2191. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩