Department profile · Monmouth County

Holmdel Police Department

Reported as: Holmdel PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to Holmdel Township on the New Jersey Civil Service Commission roster.

Read how the process works or the Title 4A glossary. Browse NJCSNavigator’s civil service jurisdiction directory for the full local-jurisdiction roster.

Reflects the NJCSC Appendix A roster as of 2026-07-04. Context only, not legal advice.

Radio encryption

Holmdel Police Department encrypts its radio communications (P25 AES-256, all operations), according to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, as of 2026-03-06 (unverified).

AnalysisThis site treats radio encryption as a meaningful transparency signal. When a department closes its radio traffic to the public, the public loses a real-time window into how it operates. That is context for reading the discipline and internal affairs records on this page, not a figure drawn from them.

In brief

Holmdel Police Department, a municipal police agency in Monmouth County, named 24 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 across 41 investigations. Its rate of 170.8 per 100 officers exceeds the Monmouth County median of 125 and the 125.9 municipal median. A higher rate can point to more misconduct or to a department that records more of what is brought to it. Of the 41 investigations detailed for 2025, 5 reported sustained complaints. Demeanor was the leading allegation category, with Other Departmental Rule Violation and Improper Arrest next.

One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, and it was a termination. Holmdel received a C on the report card, at the 49th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, 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

24^{^[1]}

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

IA investigations, 2025

41^{^[1]}

Incidents, 2025

26^{^[1]}

Major discipline records

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

47^{^[7]}

58 years reported

47 sworn officers in 2025, up from 6 in 1968 (+683%).
Year	sworn officers
1968	6
1969	6
1970	7
1971	7
1972	10
1973	12
1974	13
1975	16
1976	16
1977	16
1978	16
1979	16
1980	17
1981	19
1982	21
1983	21
1984	22
1985	22
1986	22
1987	25
1988	27
1989	27
1990	28
1991	28
1992	27
1993	26
1994	29
1995	29
1996	31
1997	34
1998	33
1999	35
2000	34
2001	40
2002	38
2003	42
2004	41
2005	43
2006	43
2007	43
2008	43
2009	44
2010	41
2011	39
2012	36
2013	38
2014	40
2015	40
2016	41
2017	40
2018	43
2019	42
2020	43
2021	43
2022	42
2023	48
2024	47
2025	47

Civilian employees, 2025

9^{^[8]}

0.19 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

2^{^[9]}

4.3% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

2.68^{^[10]}

Municipal departments only

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

How Holmdel 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, 30-59 officers (n=111)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 30-59 officers
Range	Agencies
30–35	38
35–40	27
40–45	16
45–50	13
50–55	10
55–60	7

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Holmdel Police Department: 47 sworn officers: 79th percentile among Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=111).

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 46 active Holmdel Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$152,823^{^[3]}

46 active officers

Median local school staff

$91,439

HOLMDEL TOWNSHIP BD OF ED, 322 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.67x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.76x

Median officer to Monmouth 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 "HOLMDEL TOWNSHIP 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 Monmouth County pay page.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

In brief

Written by this site from the figures below.

Holmdel Police Department received seven recorded line items of surplus military equipment between 2014 and 2021, with a total recorded value of $81,554 in original Department of Defense acquisition cost rather than current or market value. All of it falls into categories this site classes as tactical, led by Unmanned ground vehicles at $77,060, with Guns, through 30mm accounting for $4,494. These are transfers the department received, not a current inventory, 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.

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

Total recorded value

$81,554^{^[2]}

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$81,554^{^[2]}

7 of 7 line items classed tactical

Transfer window

2014-2021^{^[2]}

Earliest to latest recorded ship date

Quantities received, by unit of issue: 7 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 Holmdel Police Department, by recorded value (original DoD acquisition cost, dollars)
Unmanned ground vehicles	77,060 tactical
Guns, through 30mm	4,494 tactical

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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 Holmdel Police Department, grouped tactical vs mundane
Category	Class	Line items	Quantity received	Recorded value (original cost)
Unmanned ground vehiclesEOD robots and bomb-disposal equipment · FSC 2360	Tactical	1	1 items (Each)	$77,060
Guns, through 30mmWeapons · FSC 1005	Tactical	6	6 items (Each)	$4,494

Every recorded transfer

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1033 program transfers recorded for Holmdel Police Department, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency
Item	Category	Qty	Recorded valueOriginal DoD cost	Ship date	DEMIL
UNMANNED VEHICLE,GROUNDNSN 2360-01-663-1082Shipped 2021-01-15 · DEMIL Q	Unmanned ground vehicles Tactical	1 Each	$77,060	2021-01-15	Q
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-01-128-9936Shipped 2014-11-13 · DEMIL D	Guns, through 30mm Tactical	1 Each	$749	2014-11-13	D
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-01-128-9936Shipped 2014-11-13 · DEMIL D	Guns, through 30mm Tactical	1 Each	$749	2014-11-13	D
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-01-128-9936Shipped 2014-11-13 · DEMIL D	Guns, through 30mm Tactical	1 Each	$749	2014-11-13	D
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-01-128-9936Shipped 2014-11-13 · DEMIL D	Guns, through 30mm Tactical	1 Each	$749	2014-11-13	D
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-01-128-9936Shipped 2014-11-13 · DEMIL D	Guns, through 30mm Tactical	1 Each	$749	2014-11-13	D
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-01-128-9936Shipped 2014-11-13 · DEMIL D	Guns, through 30mm Tactical	1 Each	$749	2014-11-13	D

7 of 7 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.

Holmdel Police Department received $1,735 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 84th percentile among municipal police agencies of similar size (30-59 officers, n=112).

Peer group: Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=112)

Tactical 1033 value per sworn officer: Municipal police, 30-59 officers
Range	Agencies
0–5000	102
5000–10000	4
10000–15000	1
15000–20000	3
20000–25000	1

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Holmdel Police Department: 1,735 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 84th percentile among Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=112).

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 Holmdel Police Department, by year
Category	counts
2021	28
2022	17
2023	5
2024	8
2025	41

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Incidents

26 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Holmdel Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	24
2022	17
2023	2
2024	8
2025	26

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Officers on IA rows

39 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Holmdel Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	not reported
2022	not reported
2023	not reported
2024	8
2025	39

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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 · 5 reported years

Share of internal affairs investigations sustained by Holmdel Police Department, by year
Year	share of total
2021	0
2022	41.176
2023	0
2024	25
2025	12.195

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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 39 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Holmdel Police Department, 2025
Demeanor	16
Other Departmental Rule Violation	7
Improper Arrest	7
Differential Treatment	3
BWC/MVR Violation	2
Domestic violence (Non-Criminal)	2
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency	1
Attendance Issues	1

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AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Demeanor · Other Departmental Rule Violation · Improper Arrest · Differential Treatment · BWC/MVR Violation · Domestic violence (Non-Criminal) · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency · Attendance Issues

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Holmdel Police Department, 2025
Exonerated	23
not provided	10
Sustained	5
Unfounded	2
Not Sustained	1

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Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

37 of 99

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Holmdel Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	23
2022	0
2023	5
2024	2
2025	7

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Demeanor

26 of 99

Demeanor allegations reported by Holmdel Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	3
2022	4
2023	0
2024	3
2025	16

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Differential Treatment

9 of 99

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Holmdel Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	2
2022	3
2023	0
2024	1
2025	3

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not provided

9 of 99

not provided allegations reported by Holmdel Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	8
2023	0
2024	0
2025	1

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Other (8 categories)

18 of 99

Other (8 categories) allegations reported by Holmdel Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	2
2023	0
2024	2
2025	14

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Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →

Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Holmdel Police Department	170.8
County median, municipal police (41)	125.0
NJ median, municipal police (445)	125.9

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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.

41 investigations reported for 2025^[1] ÷ 47 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025^[22] = 87.2 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 C: Middle fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing: 49th percentile of 110 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 Holmdel Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=110)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 30-59 officers
Range	Agencies
0–50	73
50–100	25
100–150	4
150–200	6
200–250	1
250–300	1

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Holmdel Police Department: 29.412 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 46th percentile among Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=110).

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%

70th percentileof 110 peers

132.4 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%

46th percentileof 110 peers

29.4 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%

22nd percentileof 110 peers

1.83 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.^[23] How each metric is defined.

This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
Metric	Value	Rank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025	170.8	53rd of 445 municipal police
IA investigations2025	41	54th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents2025	26	70th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-2025	1	184th of 282 municipal police
Terminations2020-2025	1	30th of 111 municipal police
Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30	$1,735	89th of 163 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year	2.68	165th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-31	1.76x	32nd of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present	40	49th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Year	major discipline records
2020	0
2021	1
2022	0
2023	0
2024	0
2025	0

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Holmdel Police Department, 2020-2025
Year	Officer	Rank	Sanction as reported	Src
2021	Ian Wladika	Patrol Officer	Terminated	^[24]

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.^[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 Holmdel Township, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 40 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 167 filed to Holmdel Township are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

40^{^[4]}

Identified by subject line, of 207 filed to Holmdel Township

Most recent request

March 2026^{^[4]}

First recorded November 2017

Awaiting a response

13^{^[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 Holmdel Township (requests)
Requester reported success	16
Awaiting agency response	13
Requester reported partial success	6
Agency said records not held	2
Request refused	2
Under internal review	1

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Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Holmdel Township, 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.

2026-03-09Awaiting agency response
2025-12-09Awaiting agency response
2025-10-27Under internal review
2025-10-21Requester reported success
2025-10-21Requester reported success
2025-09-15Awaiting agency response
2025-02-22Agency said records not held
2025-02-21Awaiting agency response
2025-02-10Awaiting agency response
2025-01-17Requester reported success
2024-12-25Requester reported partial success
2024-12-24Request refused

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: “OPRA request for body-worn camera footage and related police records for an incident involving Danielle M. Lembo on December 3, 2025 at approximately 18:17 in Holmdel Township, NJ.”
2026-03-09 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Holmdel Police Dispatcher Contract”
2025-12-09 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Bodycam and report”
2025-10-27 · Under internal review
A member of the public requested: “Holmdel police detailed CAD Logs from Oct 20, 2025 between 1 am and 4 am”
2025-10-21 · Requester reported success
A member of the public requested: “police records for Case Number 24-23488”
2025-10-21 · Requester reported success
A member of the public requested: “BWC Footage”
2025-09-15 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Video Request (Bodycam or Dashcam)”
2025-02-22 · Agency said records not held
A member of the public requested: “BWC or Dashcam Video Request”
2025-02-21 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Incident Reports (Assault & Resisting Arrest)”
2025-02-10 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Holmdel Police CAD logs”
2025-01-17 · Requester reported success
A member of the public requested: “Police Records for Incident 24-1958-OF Body Cam and Security Camera Footage”
2024-12-25 · Requester reported partial success
A member of the public requested: “Police Records for Case 24-23488 including video footage and body cam”
2024-12-24 · Request refused

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 Holmdel Township 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 Holmdel Township 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

What is a summary of Holmdel Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Holmdel Police Department, a municipal police agency in Monmouth County, named 24 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 across 41 investigations. Its rate of 170.8 per 100 officers exceeds the Monmouth County median of 125 and the 125.9 municipal median. A higher rate can point to more misconduct or to a department that records more of what is brought to it. Of the 41 investigations detailed for 2025, 5 reported sustained complaints. Demeanor was the leading allegation category, with Other Departmental Rule Violation and Improper Arrest next. One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, and it was a termination. Holmdel received a C on the report card, at the 49th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, a medium-confidence grade.

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

Holmdel Police Department reported 41 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 24 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Holmdel Police Department have?

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

Does Holmdel Police Department encrypt its radio communications?

According to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, Holmdel Police Department encrypts all of its radio communications (P25 AES-256), as recorded on 2026-03-06. This site treats radio encryption as a transparency signal, which is analysis, not a figure from the discipline data.

How many officers does Holmdel Police Department have?

Holmdel Police Department reported 47 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 4.3% of them female. That is 2.68 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 Holmdel Police Department received through the 1033 program?

Holmdel Police Department received 7 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program between 2014 and 2021, with a total recorded value of $81,554 (original DoD acquisition cost, not current or market value). The largest category by recorded value was: Unmanned ground vehicles. 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 Holmdel Police Department received?

The surplus equipment recorded for Holmdel Police Department under the 1033 program totals $81,554 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $81,554 is in categories this site classes as tactical (7 of 7 line items). These are original-cost figures at the time of transfer, not current or market value.

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

The median pensionable salary for the 46 active Holmdel Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $152,823. The median for the 322 TPAF-enrolled staff at HOLMDEL TOWNSHIP BD OF ED is $91,439, a ratio of 1.67x. Against the Monmouth County school-staff median the ratio is 1.76x. 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]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2346. 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]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset) and YourMoney Active Pension Members (TPAF subset, names removed). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Both snapshots as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. Figures are computed by this site from as-reported pensionable salaries; the row-by-row account of what entered each figure is published at /data/pay-comparison.json. ↩
[4]Records-request activity for Holmdel Township. 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. ↩
[5]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Holmdel PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[6]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.
[7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8433. 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 8433. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[9]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8433. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[10]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8433. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 311. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1330. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[13]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1835. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[14]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 814. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[15]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2346. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[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 Holmdel PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
[17]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 Holmdel PD row for 2021. ↩
[18]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 Holmdel PD row for 2022. ↩
[19]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 Holmdel PD row for 2023. ↩
[20]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 Holmdel PD row for 2024. ↩
[21]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 Holmdel PD row for 2025. ↩
[22]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8433. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[23]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. ↩
[24]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2620. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩