Skip to content
POLICE TRANSPARENCY NJ
Menu

Department profile · Morris County

Madison Police Department

Reported as: Madison 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, 2024

7[1]

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

IA investigations, 2024

7[1]

Incidents, 2024

5[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

30[6]

66 years reported

30 sworn officers in 2025, up from 25 in 1960 (+20%).
Yearsworn officers
196025
196125
196226
196327
196427
196528
196626
196729
196828
196929
197031
197129
197232
197333
197433
197533
197633
197733
197833
197932
198032
198133
198233
198331
198434
198534
198632
198735
198835
198934
199035
199133
199234
199334
199435
199536
199635
199735
199834
199935
200035
200135
200236
200336
200435
200535
200635
200736
200834
200933
201031
201128
201226
201326
201426
201528
201628
201729
201830
201931
202027
202128
202228
202329
202429
202530

Civilian employees, 2025

11[7]

0.37 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

1[8]

3.3% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

1.82[9]

Municipal departments only

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

How Madison 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
30–3537
35–4027
40–4516
45–5014
50–5510
55–607

Madison Police Department: 30 sworn officers: 4th 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 29 active Madison Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$112,635[3]

29 active officers

Median local school staff

$93,620

MADISON BORO BD OF ED, 269 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.20x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.28x

Median officer to Morris 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 "MADISON BORO 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 Morris County pay page.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

In brief

Written by this site from the figures below.

Madison Police Department received six recorded line items of surplus military equipment between 1999 and 2002, all under Guns, through 30mm. The total recorded value is $2,272 in original Department of Defense acquisition cost, not current or market value, and the category is one this site classes as tactical. These are transfers received more than twenty years ago, 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

$2,272[2]

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$2,272[2]

6 of 6 line items classed tactical

Transfer window

1999-2002[2]

Earliest to latest recorded ship date

Quantities received, by unit of issue: 6 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 Madison Police Department, by recorded value (original DoD acquisition cost, dollars)
Guns, through 30mm2,272 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.

1033 equipment categories received by Madison Police Department, grouped tactical vs mundane
CategoryClassLine itemsQuantity receivedRecorded value (original cost)
Guns, through 30mmWeapons · FSC 1005Tactical66 items (Each)$2,272

Every recorded transfer

Equipment class

Sort

Filtering only hides rows; every recorded transfer stays in the table below it.

Scroll sideways for more columns →

1033 program transfers recorded for Madison Police Department, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency
ItemCategoryQtyRecorded valueOriginal DoD cost
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2002-09-03 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2002-09-03 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2002-09-03 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2002-09-03 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,7.62 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-589-1271Shipped 1999-08-05 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$138
RIFLE,7.62 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-589-1271Shipped 1999-08-05 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$138

6 of 6 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.

Madison Police Department received $76 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 69th 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
RangeAgencies
0–5000102
5000–100004
10000–150001
15000–200003
20000–250001

Madison Police Department: 76 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 69th 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 Madison Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202114
202213
202317
20247

Incidents

5 in 2024

Internal affairs incidents reported by Madison Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202111
20227
202312
20245
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 Madison Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
20227.692
20235.882
20240

Statewide, 19.5 percent of investigations reported a sustained complaint in 2025. How dispositions break down statewide.

Complaint mix, 2024

Most serious allegation per investigation, as categorized by the reporting agency. Officer-level rows list 7 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Madison Police Department, 2024
Harassment/Stalking3
Demeanor2
Other Criminal Violation1
Improper Arrest1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Harassment/Stalking · Demeanor · Other Criminal Violation · Improper Arrest

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Madison Police Department, 2024
Unfounded3
not provided3
Administratively Closed1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2024

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

Differential Treatment

17 of 51

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Madison Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202110
20223
20234
20240

Improper Arrest

11 of 51

Improper Arrest allegations reported by Madison Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20225
20235
20241

Demeanor

8 of 51

Demeanor allegations reported by Madison Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20220
20235
20242

not provided

4 of 51

not provided allegations reported by Madison Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20224
20230
20240

Other (5 categories)

11 of 51

Other (5 categories) allegations reported by Madison Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20213
20221
20233
20244

Report card

Grade D: Second-highest fifth

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
73rd percentile of 171 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 Madison Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=171)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 15-29 officers
RangeAgencies
0–50120
50–10024
100–15015
150–2007
200–2503
250–3002

Madison Police Department: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 25th percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=171).

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%

83rd percentileof 171 peers

140.7 investigations per 100 officers (multi-year mean)

Internal affairs investigations per 100 reported officers, averaged over the years where the agency reported both figures.

Discipline severityweight 40%

25th percentileof 171 peers

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%

94th percentileof 171 peers

2.74 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.[19] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30$76138th of 163 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year1.82362nd of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.28x262nd of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present13325th 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.[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 Madison Borough, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 13 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 75 filed to Madison Borough are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

13[4]

Identified by subject line, of 88 filed to Madison Borough

Most recent request

May 2025[4]

First recorded May 2020

Awaiting a response

10[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 Madison Borough (requests)
Awaiting agency response10
Requester reported success2
Requester reported partial success1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Madison 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.

  1. 2025-05-30Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-05-16Awaiting agency response
  3. 2024-09-28Awaiting agency response
  4. 2024-07-31Awaiting agency response
  5. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  6. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  7. 2023-05-28Requester reported success
  8. 2021-04-20Requester reported success
  9. 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
  10. 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
  11. 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
  12. 2020-05-27Requester 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.

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 Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison Police Department report in 2024?

Madison Police Department reported 7 internal affairs investigations in 2024, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 7 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Madison Police Department have?

No major discipline records appear for Madison 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 Madison Police Department have?

Madison Police Department reported 30 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 3.3% of them female. That is 1.82 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 Madison Police Department received through the 1033 program?

Madison Police Department received 6 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program between 1999 and 2002, with a total recorded value of $2,272 (original DoD acquisition cost, not current or market value). The largest category by recorded value was: Guns, through 30mm. 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 Madison Police Department received?

The surplus equipment recorded for Madison Police Department under the 1033 program totals $2,272 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $2,272 is in categories this site classes as tactical (6 of 6 line items). These are original-cost figures at the time of transfer, not current or market value.

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

The median pensionable salary for the 29 active Madison Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $112,635. The median for the 269 TPAF-enrolled staff at MADISON BORO BD OF ED is $93,620, a ratio of 1.20x. Against the Morris County school-staff median the ratio is 1.28x. 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 859. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [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. [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. [4]Records-request activity for Madison 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. ↩
  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 8482. 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 8482. 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 8482. 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 8482. 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 355. 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 1373. 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 1879. 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 859. 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 Madison PD row for 2024; 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 Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison PD row for 2024. ↩
  19. [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. ↩