Department profile · Ocean County
Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department
Reported as: Harvey Cedars Boro 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
1[1]
Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing
IA investigations, 2025
1[1]
Incidents, 2025
1[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
9[5]
58 years reported
| Year | sworn officers |
|---|---|
| 1968 | 3 |
| 1969 | 3 |
| 1970 | 3 |
| 1971 | 3 |
| 1972 | 4 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1975 | 4 |
| 1976 | 4 |
| 1977 | 4 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 8 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2018 | 8 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 9 |
How Harvey Cedars Borough 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 | 1 |
| 6–8 | 17 |
| 8–10 | 10 |
| 10–12 | 15 |
| 12–14 | 41 |
Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department: 9 sworn officers: 42nd 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 Harvey Cedars Borough 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 Ocean County pay page.
Military surplus equipment (1033 program)
In brief
Written by this site from the figures below.
Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department received two recorded line items through the federal surplus program, shipped between 2016 and 2022. Their combined recorded value is $93,640 in original Department of Defense acquisition cost rather than current or market value, split between Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled at $89,900 and Optical sighting and ranging equipment at $3,740, both categories this site classes as tactical. These are transfers the department received, not a current inventory, and non-controlled items may be disposed of after one year. Receiving surplus equipment is not misconduct, and this federal data is separate in origin from the Attorney General discipline records on this page.
Surplus military equipment transferred to this agency under the Defense Department's 1033 program, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency.
Quantities received, by unit of issue: 12 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
| Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled | 89,900 tactical |
|---|---|
| Optical sighting and ranging equipment | 3,740 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.
Every recorded transfer
Equipment class
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2 of 2 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.
Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department received $10,404 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 93rd percentile among municipal police agencies of similar size (1-14 officers, n=89).
Peer group: Municipal police, 1-14 officers (n=89)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–10000 | 82 |
| 10000–20000 | 5 |
| 20000–30000 | 0 |
| 30000–40000 | 0 |
| 40000–50000 | 1 |
Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department: 10,404 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 93rd percentile among Municipal police, 1-14 officers (n=89).
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
| Category | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 |
Incidents
1 in 2025
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 |
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
| Year | share of total |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 100 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 |
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 1 officers involved.
Most serious allegation
| not provided | 1 |
|---|
Internal disposition
| not provided | 1 |
|---|
Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation
5 of 7
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | not reported |
| 2025 | 0 |
Demeanor
1 of 7
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | not reported |
| 2025 | 0 |
not provided
1 of 7
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | not reported |
| 2025 | 1 |
Against peers, 2025
How this grade was built →| Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department | 100.0 |
|---|---|
| County median, municipal police (29) | 100.0 |
| 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.
1 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 9 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[18] = 11.1 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
- 35th 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 Harvey Cedars Borough 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 |
Harvey Cedars Borough 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%
137.5 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%
1.17 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
| Metric | Value | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| IA per 100 investigated officers2025 | 100.0 | 322nd of 445 municipal police |
| IA investigations2025 | 1 | 410th of 445 municipal police |
| IA incidents2025 | 1 | 405th of 445 municipal police |
| Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30 | $10,404 | 26th of 163 municipal police |
| Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year | 22.22 | 3rd of 460 municipal police |
| OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present | 11 | 388th 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.[3] 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 Harvey Cedars Borough, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 11 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 50 filed to Harvey Cedars Borough are about something else and are not shown.
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.
| Awaiting agency response | 8 |
|---|---|
| Requester reported partial success | 2 |
| Requester reported success | 1 |
Recent requests
The 11 most recent police-related requests to Harvey Cedars 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.
- 2025-10-08Awaiting agency response
- 2025-04-18Awaiting agency response
- 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
- 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
- 2021-04-20Requester reported success
- 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
- 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
- 2020-05-27Awaiting agency response
- 2020-05-27Awaiting agency response
- 2020-05-27Requester reported partial success
- 2017-10-30Requester reported partial 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.
A member of the public requested: “Police OPRA Request”
2025-10-08 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Harvey Cedars Police Department Open Records Request”
2025-04-18 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Invoice of Body Camera Purchase in the Police Department”
2023-08-31 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Purchase order history for the police department from 2020 - 2023”
2023-08-31 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Civilian Review Board/Police Advisory Boards”
2021-04-20 · Requester reported success
A member of the public requested: “OPRA request: police payroll records 2012-2019”
2020-05-28 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “OPRA request -- use of force reports 2017-2019”
2020-05-28 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “OPRA - police officer-involved lawsuits 2012-2019”
2020-05-27 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “OPRA: Purchase order history for the police department from 2012 to 2019”
2020-05-27 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “OPRA: Purchase invoice of body worn cameras for the police department”
2020-05-27 · Requester reported partial success
A member of the public requested: “Police use of force reports, January - October, 2017”
2017-10-30 · Requester reported partial success
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 Harvey Cedars 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 Harvey Cedars 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 Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department report in 2025?
Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department reported 1 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 1 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.
How many major discipline records does Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department have?
No major discipline records appear for Harvey Cedars Borough 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 Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department have?
Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department reported 9 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 0% of them female. That is 22.22 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 Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department received through the 1033 program?
Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department received 2 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program between 2016 and 2022, with a total recorded value of $93,640 (original DoD acquisition cost, not current or market value). The largest category by recorded value was: Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled. 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 Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department received?
The surplus equipment recorded for Harvey Cedars Borough Police Department under the 1033 program totals $93,640 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $93,640 is in categories this site classes as tactical (2 of 2 line items). These are original-cost figures at the time of transfer, not current or market value.
Sources
- [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2418. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [2]DoD 1033 Program transfers (LESO Public Information), New Jersey sheet. Defense Logistics Agency (U.S. Department of Defense). LESO Public Information: DISP_AllStatesAndTerritories, quarterly file as of 2026-06-30; recorded ship dates 1993-2026. Retrieved 2026-07-10. https://www.dla.mil/Disposition-Services/Offers/Law-Enforcement/Public-Information/ ↩
- [3]Records-request activity for Harvey Cedars Borough. 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. ↩
- [4]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.
- [5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8513. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [6]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8513. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8513. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [8]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8513. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [9]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 382. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1401. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1907. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2418. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [13]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 Harvey Cedars Boro PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
- [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 Harvey Cedars Boro PD row for 2021. ↩
- [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 Harvey Cedars Boro PD row for 2022. ↩
- [16]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 Harvey Cedars Boro PD row for 2023. ↩
- [17]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 Harvey Cedars Boro PD row for 2025. ↩
- [18]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8513. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [19]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. ↩