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Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department

Reported as: Little Egg Harbor Twp PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to Little Egg Harbor 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.

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

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

45[6]

58 years reported

45 sworn officers in 2025, up from 1 in 1968 (+4400%).
Yearsworn officers
19681
19691
19702
19716
19727
19739
197413
197513
197614
197716
197820
197918
198019
198121
198219
198319
198418
198519
198621
198720
198826
198925
199025
199124
199226
199328
199432
199530
199630
199731
199831
199931
200034
200136
200237
200338
200439
200542
200641
200747
200847
200947
201036
201139
201239
201337
201440
201542
201643
201743
201843
201944
202043
202145
202245
202345
202445
202545

Civilian employees, 2025

9[7]

0.2 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

2[8]

4.4% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

2.06[9]

Municipal departments only

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

How Little Egg Harbor 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, 30-59 officers (n=111)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 30-59 officers
RangeAgencies
30–3538
35–4027
40–4516
45–5013
50–5510
55–607

Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department: 45 sworn officers: 74th 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 42 active Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$128,069[2]

42 active officers

Median local school staff

$83,987

LITTLE EGG HARBOR TWP BD OF ED, 160 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.52x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.60x

Median officer to Ocean 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 "LITTLE EGG HARBOR TWP 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 Ocean 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 Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202110
20226
20233
20251

Incidents

1 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20219
20225
20232
20251
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 Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202233.333
202333.333
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 1 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, 2025
DUI/DWI Off Duty1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: DUI/DWI Off Duty

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, 2025
not provided1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

5 of 20

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20215
20220
20230
2024not reported
20250

Excessive Force

4 of 20

Excessive Force allegations reported by Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20220
20232
2024not reported
20250

Differential Treatment

3 of 20

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20222
20230
2024not reported
20250

BWC/MVR Violation

1 of 20

BWC/MVR Violation allegations reported by Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20230
2024not reported
20250

Other (7 categories)

7 of 20

Other (7 categories) allegations reported by Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20223
20231
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)
Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department100.0
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.

AnalysisA second, independent rate using FBI-reported staffing instead.

1 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 45 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[19] = 2.2 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 D: Second-highest fifth

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
64th 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 Little Egg Harbor 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, 30-59 officers (n=110)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 30-59 officers
RangeAgencies
0–5073
50–10025
100–1504
150–2006
200–2501
250–3001

Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department: 88.889 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 87th 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%

10th percentileof 110 peers

107.8 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%

87th percentileof 110 peers

88.9 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%

92nd percentileof 110 peers

2.63 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.[20] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025100.0322nd of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20251410th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20251405th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20251184th of 282 municipal police
Terminations2020-2025130th of 111 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year2.06303rd of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.60x86th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present23143rd of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20220
20230
20241
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2024Michael LaMontagnePatrolmanTerminated[21]

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 Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, spanning 2015 through 2016. The force labels, as recorded by the project, are Gunshot in two of them. Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that documented deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, deaths in police presence, and medical emergencies. A record is not a finding of fault against the agency or any officer, and it is not connected to the Attorney General discipline records elsewhere on this page. The project stopped collecting in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen and nothing after that date appears here.

Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021.[3] 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 Little Egg Harbor Township Police 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.

  • Patrick Fennell

    July 16, 2016 · Little Egg Harbor Township · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

  • Francis D. Hartnett

    November 17, 2015 · Little Egg Harbor Township · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

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.

Police-related requests

23[4]

Every request filed to this department

Most recent request

June 2026[4]

First recorded November 2019

Awaiting a response

11[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 records requests to Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department (requests)
Awaiting agency response11
Requester reported success4
Request refused3
Requester reported partial success3
Agency said records not held2

Recent requests

The 12 most recent requests to Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, 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. 2026-06-11Request refused
  2. 2026-04-16Requester reported success
  3. 2026-02-26Request refused
  4. 2025-10-20Awaiting agency response
  5. 2025-10-09Awaiting agency response
  6. 2025-05-22Awaiting agency response
  7. 2025-05-21Requester reported partial success
  8. 2025-05-09Awaiting agency response
  9. 2025-04-07Awaiting agency response
  10. 2025-04-06Awaiting agency response
  11. 2024-09-20Requester reported success
  12. 2024-08-27Awaiting 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 department 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 Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department 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 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 Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department report in 2025?

Little Egg Harbor Township 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 Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department have?

Little Egg Harbor Township 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.

How many officers does Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department have?

Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department reported 45 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 4.4% of them female. That is 2.06 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.

How many deaths during police encounters are recorded for Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 2 records naming Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department, from 2015 through 2016. 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.

What does Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 42 active Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $128,069. The median for the 160 TPAF-enrolled staff at LITTLE EGG HARBOR TWP BD OF ED is $83,987, a ratio of 1.52x. Against the Ocean County school-staff median the ratio is 1.60x. 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. [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2425. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]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. ↩
  3. [3]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/ ↩
  4. [4]Records-request activity for Little Egg Harbor Township Police Department. 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. [5]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.
  6. [6]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8520. 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 8520. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  8. [8]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8520. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  9. [9]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8520. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  10. [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 389. 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 1408. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  12. [12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1914. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  13. [13]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2425. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  14. [14]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 Little Egg Harbor Twp PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  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 Little Egg Harbor Twp PD row for 2021. ↩
  16. [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 Little Egg Harbor Twp PD row for 2022. ↩
  17. [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 Little Egg Harbor Twp PD row for 2023. ↩
  18. [18]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 Little Egg Harbor Twp PD row for 2025. ↩
  19. [19]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8520. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  20. [20]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. ↩
  21. [21]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1231. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩