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Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office

Reported as: Middlesex Co Prosecutors OfficeCounty prosecutor

Jurisdiction context

Civil service status not verified

We could not match this agency to the NJCSC roster with confidence. Whether the Title 4A framework applies here is not asserted either way.

See the context on non-civil-service departments.

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

In brief

The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office named 10 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 12 investigations, a rate of 120 per 100 officers. That matched the Middlesex County median of 120 and ran above the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies, a spread that can mean more misconduct or a fuller record of complaints received. Of the 12 investigations detailed for 2025, 4 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, with False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal) and Improper Arrest also listed. Allegations are not findings.

One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. The office received an F on the report card, at the 83rd percentile among 21 peers in the group of all prosecutor agencies, a medium-confidence grade.

Written by this site strictly from the figures on this page; every number is cited below.

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

10[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

12[1]

Incidents, 2025

6[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

78[5]

50 years reported

78 sworn officers in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearsworn officers
197682
197789
197884
197986
198079
198156
198292
198392
198494
198597
1986101
1987101
1988101
1989123
1990131
1991127
1992129
1993136
1994138
1995137
1996135
1997131
1998132
1999134
2000132
2001133
2002128
2003129
2004134
2005132
2006130
200781
200880
200976
201075
201168
201269
201365
201467
201568
201669
201769
201869
201971
202069
202172
202272
202378
202477
202578

Civilian employees, 2025

137[6]

1.76 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

25[7]

32.1% of sworn officers

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

How Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office's sworn staffing compares with its real peer group (same agency type, similar size band), not an assumed bell curve.

Peer group: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20)

Sworn officers: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies
RangeAgencies
0–509
50–1008
100–1503

Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office: 78 sworn officers: 79th percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20).

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.

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 Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Categorycounts
20219
20228
202317
202426
202512

Incidents

6 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20219
20228
202310
20249
20256

Officers on IA rows

11 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202412
202511
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 Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
20220
202317.647
20240
202533.333

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 11 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, 2025
not provided6
Other Departmental Rule Violation2
False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal)1
Improper Arrest1
Neglect of Duty1
Excessive Force1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal) · Improper Arrest · Neglect of Duty · Excessive Force

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, 2025
not provided6
Sustained4
Exonerated1
Unfounded1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

26 of 72

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20213
20222
20233
202416
20252

Neglect of Duty

8 of 72

Neglect of Duty allegations reported by Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20234
20242
20251

Excessive Force

6 of 72

Excessive Force allegations reported by Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20232
20242
20251

not provided

6 of 72

not provided allegations reported by Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20230
20240
20256

Other (7 categories)

26 of 72

Other (7 categories) allegations reported by Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20216
20224
20238
20246
20252
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office120.0
County median, county prosecutor (1)120.0
NJ median, county prosecutor (21)107.5

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.

12 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 78 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[19] = 15.4 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 F: Highest fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
83rd percentile of 21 peers
Confidence
Medium confidence
  • small agency; per-officer rates swing widely on a handful of cases

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=21)

Discipline severity: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies
RangeAgencies
0–10016
100–2002
200–3002
300–4001

Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office: 19.231 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 45th percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=21).

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%

98th percentileof 21 peers

136.8 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%

45th percentileof 21 peers

19.2 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%

64th percentileof 21 peers

2.20 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 officers2025120.09th of 21 county prosecutor
IA investigations2025129th of 21 county prosecutor
IA incidents2025611th of 21 county prosecutor
Major discipline2020-2025111th of 16 county prosecutor
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present1002nd of 15 county prosecutor

Major discipline records

1 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20220
20230
20240
20251

1 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.

Major discipline records reported by Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2025Michael Griffith 2ndDetectiveSuspended 5 days[21]

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.[2] 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

100[2]

Every request filed to this department

Most recent request

July 2026[2]

First recorded March 2018

Awaiting a response

33[2]

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 Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office (requests)
Awaiting agency response33
Requester reported success28
Requester reported partial success14
Request refused12
Agency said records not held7
Withdrawn by requester4
Under internal review2

Recent requests

The 12 most recent requests to Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, 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. 2026-07-10Awaiting agency response
  2. 2026-06-07Awaiting agency response
  3. 2026-05-20Awaiting agency response
  4. 2026-05-15Agency said records not held
  5. 2026-04-18Requester reported success
  6. 2026-04-07Awaiting agency response
  7. 2026-03-30Awaiting agency response
  8. 2026-03-28Awaiting agency response
  9. 2026-02-26Awaiting agency response
  10. 2026-01-06Awaiting agency response
  11. 2025-12-08Awaiting agency response
  12. 2025-11-28Under internal review
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 Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office 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

What is a summary of Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office's internal affairs and discipline record?

The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office named 10 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 12 investigations, a rate of 120 per 100 officers. That matched the Middlesex County median of 120 and ran above the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies, a spread that can mean more misconduct or a fuller record of complaints received. Of the 12 investigations detailed for 2025, 4 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, with False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal) and Improper Arrest also listed. Allegations are not findings. One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. The office received an F on the report card, at the 83rd percentile among 21 peers in the group of all prosecutor agencies, a medium-confidence grade.

How many internal affairs investigations did Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office report in 2025?

Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office reported 12 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 10 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office have?

Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office has 1 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 0 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How many officers does Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office have?

Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office reported 78 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 32.1% of them female. 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.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2313. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09.
  2. [2]Records-request activity for Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office. 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.
  3. [3]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Middlesex Co Prosecutors Office row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09.
  4. [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.
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  9. [9]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1296. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09.
  10. [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1801. 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 782. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09.
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  13. [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 Middlesex Co Prosecutors Office row for 2025; row 1 is the header.
  14. [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 Middlesex Co Prosecutors Office row for 2021.
  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 Middlesex Co Prosecutors Office row for 2022.
  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 Middlesex Co Prosecutors Office row for 2023.
  17. [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 Middlesex Co Prosecutors Office row for 2024.
  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 Middlesex Co Prosecutors Office row for 2025.
  19. [19]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8415. 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 439. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.