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Millburn Police Department

Reported as: Millburn PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to Millburn 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

Millburn Police Department encrypts its radio communications (P25 ADP, all operations), according to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, as of 2026-04-21 (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

Millburn Police Department reported 40 internal affairs investigations in 2025 and 25 officers named in those cases, a rate of 160 per 100 officers. That is above both the Essex County median of 158.6 and the 125.9 municipal median. The gap admits two readings: more misconduct, or a department that documents a larger share of the complaints it receives. Of the 40 investigations detailed for 2025, 15 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, with Demeanor and Differential Treatment next.

No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Millburn received a C on the report card, at the 50th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

25[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

40[1]

Incidents, 2025

32[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

59[6]

66 years reported

59 sworn officers in 2025, up from 37 in 1960 (+59%).
Yearsworn officers
196037
196137
196243
196349
196448
196552
196639
196743
196847
196948
197051
197188
197254
197355
197458
197557
197658
197757
197856
197955
198055
198153
198255
198358
198456
198553
198657
198752
198855
198950
199058
199159
199256
199358
199447
199552
199652
199750
199850
199953
200051
200154
200252
200350
200450
200554
200653
200753
200854
200951
201051
201148
201253
201354
201454
201554
201653
201753
201854
201955
202058
202158
202258
202359
202460
202559

Civilian employees, 2025

6[7]

0.1 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

2[8]

3.4% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

2.56[9]

Municipal departments only

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

How Millburn 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
45–5014
50–5510
55–606

Millburn Police Department: 59 sworn officers: 100th 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 56 active Millburn Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$131,353[2]

56 active officers

Median local school staff

$103,889

MILLBURN TWP PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 489 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.26x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.45x

Median officer to Essex 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 "MILLBURN TWP PUBLIC SCHOOLS", 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 Essex 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 Millburn Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202126
202235
202330
202432
202540

Incidents

32 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Millburn Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202124
202228
202326
202425
202532

Officers on IA rows

37 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Millburn Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202429
202537
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 Millburn Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202231.429
20236.667
202437.5
202537.5

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 37 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Millburn Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation17
Demeanor11
Differential Treatment3
Use Of Force Policy Violation2
Excessive Force2
Assault1
Domestic violence (Criminal)1
Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Differential Treatment · Use Of Force Policy Violation · Excessive Force · Assault · Domestic violence (Criminal) · Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Millburn Police Department, 2025
not provided17
Sustained15
Exonerated7
Not Sustained1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

53 of 163

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Millburn Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202113
20227
20237
20249
202517

Demeanor

48 of 163

Demeanor allegations reported by Millburn Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20218
20227
202313
20249
202511

Differential Treatment

18 of 163

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Millburn Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20215
20226
20231
20243
20253

Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation

14 of 163

Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation allegations reported by Millburn Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20225
20234
20244
20251

Other (12 categories)

30 of 163

Other (12 categories) allegations reported by Millburn Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
202210
20235
20247
20258

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Millburn Police Department160.0
County median, municipal police (22)158.6
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.

40 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 59 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[21] = 67.8 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
50th percentile of 110 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Millburn 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

Millburn Police Department: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 15th 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%

93rd percentileof 110 peers

158.0 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%

15th percentileof 110 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%

39th percentileof 110 peers

1.98 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.[22] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025160.076th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20254056th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20253254th of 445 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year2.56191st of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.45x169th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present7451st of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

No major discipline records appear for this agency in the 2020-2025 releases. Absence of records is not a finding; see the methodology for what this data does and does not cover.

Public records requests

Records requests about this department filed through OPRAmachine, an independent site that files Open Public Records Act requests in public and publishes the responses.[3] This is a third-party, user-generated source, separate in origin from the Attorney General records elsewhere on this page.

Current as of 12 July 2026. These figures are a point-in-time snapshot and do not update: requests filed to OPRAmachine after that date do not appear here. For live activity, see this body on OPRAmachine.

Police-related requests

7[3]

Every request filed to this department

Most recent request

December 2025[3]

First recorded March 2022

Awaiting a response

2[3]

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 Millburn Township Police Department (requests)
Requester reported success5
Awaiting agency response2

Recent requests

The 7 most recent requests to Millburn 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. 2025-12-08Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-10-22Requester reported success
  3. 2025-05-23Awaiting agency response
  4. 2024-08-24Requester reported success
  5. 2024-08-07Requester reported success
  6. 2024-08-07Requester reported success
  7. 2022-03-09Requester reported 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 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 Millburn 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

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

Millburn Police Department reported 40 internal affairs investigations in 2025 and 25 officers named in those cases, a rate of 160 per 100 officers. That is above both the Essex County median of 158.6 and the 125.9 municipal median. The gap admits two readings: more misconduct, or a department that documents a larger share of the complaints it receives. Of the 40 investigations detailed for 2025, 15 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, with Demeanor and Differential Treatment next. No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Millburn received a C on the report card, at the 50th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Millburn Police Department reported 40 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 25 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Millburn Police Department have?

No major discipline records appear for Millburn 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.

Does Millburn Police Department encrypt its radio communications?

According to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, Millburn Police Department encrypts all of its radio communications (P25 ADP), as recorded on 2026-04-21. This site treats radio encryption as a transparency signal, which is analysis, not a figure from the discipline data.

How many officers does Millburn Police Department have?

Millburn Police Department reported 59 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 3.4% of them female. That is 2.56 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 does Millburn Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 56 active Millburn Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $131,353. The median for the 489 TPAF-enrolled staff at MILLBURN TWP PUBLIC SCHOOLS is $103,889, a ratio of 1.26x. Against the Essex County school-staff median the ratio is 1.45x. 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 2222. 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]Records-request activity for Millburn 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. ↩
  4. [4]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Millburn PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  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 8297. 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 8297. 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 8297. 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 8297. 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 192. 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 1207. 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 1715. 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 699. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  14. [14]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2222. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  15. [15]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 Millburn PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  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 Millburn PD row for 2021. ↩
  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 Millburn PD row for 2022. ↩
  18. [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 Millburn PD row for 2023. ↩
  19. [19]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 Millburn PD row for 2024. ↩
  20. [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 Millburn PD row for 2025. ↩
  21. [21]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8297. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  22. [22]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. ↩