Skip to content
POLICE TRANSPARENCY NJ
Menu

Department profile · Middlesex County

Monroe Township Police Department

Reported as: Monroe Twp 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.

Radio encryption

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

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

In brief

Monroe Township Police Department in Middlesex County named 10 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 11 investigations, a rate of 110 per 100 officers, below the Middlesex County median of 125 and the 125.9 municipal median. A department that posts a higher rate may be seeing more misconduct or may simply be putting more of its complaints on the record. Of the 11 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, followed by Attendance Issues and Differential Treatment.

One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. Monroe Twp received an A on the report card, at the 5th percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a medium-confidence grade.

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

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

10[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

11[1]

Incidents, 2025

8[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

74[6]

58 years reported

74 sworn officers in 2025, up from 3 in 1968 (+2367%).
Yearsworn officers
19683
19697
19709
19719
197212
197312
197414
197516
197616
197716
197819
197921
198019
198124
198228
198328
198427
198525
198629
198728
198831
198931
199032
199132
199231
199331
199429
199533
199634
199736
199837
199938
200038
200141
200240
200342
200445
200546
200648
200749
200849
200949
201049
201151
201252
201346
201455
201554
201655
201760
201860
201961
202066
202167
202268
202368
202468
202574

Civilian employees, 2025

20[7]

0.27 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

5[8]

6.8% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

1.47[9]

Municipal departments only

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

How Monroe 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, 60+ officers (n=92)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 60+ officers
RangeAgencies
0–20084
200–4005
400–6001
600–8001
800–10000
1000–12001

Monroe Township Police Department: 74 sworn officers: 28th percentile among Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=92).

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 74 active Monroe Township Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$159,326[2]

74 active officers

Median school staff

$88,609

Middlesex County, all TPAF members

Against the county

1.80x

Median officer to Middlesex County school-staff median

AnalysisEvery ratio here is computed by this site from as-reported pensionable salaries. 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 Middlesex 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 Monroe Township Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
20215
202222
202315
202414
202511

Incidents

8 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Monroe Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20213
202212
202312
202413
20258

Officers on IA rows

10 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Monroe Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202414
202510
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 Monroe Township Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
20229.091
202320
202421.429
202518.182

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 10 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Monroe Township Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation8
Attendance Issues2
Differential Treatment1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Attendance Issues · Differential Treatment

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Monroe Township Police Department, 2025
Unfounded7
Sustained4

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

38 of 67

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Monroe Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20229
20238
202411
20258

Excessive Force

10 of 67

Excessive Force allegations reported by Monroe Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20213
20223
20233
20241
20250

Theft

7 of 67

Theft allegations reported by Monroe Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20227
20230
20240
20250

Differential Treatment

4 of 67

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Monroe Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20231
20242
20251

Other (5 categories)

8 of 67

Other (5 categories) allegations reported by Monroe Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20223
20233
20240
20252

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Monroe Township Police Department110.0
County median, municipal police (25)125.0
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.

11 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 74 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[21] = 14.9 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 A: Lowest fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
5th percentile of 93 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 Monroe 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, 60+ officers (n=93)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 60+ officers
RangeAgencies
0–5066
50–10025
100–1501
150–2001

Monroe Township Police Department: 23.81 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 35th percentile among Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=93).

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%

3rd percentileof 93 peers

105.5 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%

35th percentileof 93 peers

23.8 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%

47th percentileof 93 peers

1.99 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 officers2025110.0315th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations202511199th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20258211th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20251184th of 282 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year1.47432nd of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.80x18th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present15279th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20221
20230
20240
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Monroe Township Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2022Anthony TrohalidesSgtDemotedSuspended 50 days[23]

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.[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

15[3]

Every request filed to this department

Most recent request

February 2026[3]

First recorded February 2024

Awaiting a response

8[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 Monroe Township Police Department (Middlesex) (requests)
Awaiting agency response8
Requester reported success5
Agency said records not held1
Requester reported partial success1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent requests to Monroe Township Police Department (Middlesex), 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. 2026-02-04Requester reported success
  2. 2025-12-08Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-09-24Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-09-10Awaiting agency response
  5. 2025-05-30Awaiting agency response
  6. 2025-05-09Awaiting agency response
  7. 2025-03-27Agency said records not held
  8. 2025-03-20Awaiting agency response
  9. 2025-03-03Requester reported partial success
  10. 2025-02-13Requester reported success
  11. 2025-01-08Awaiting agency response
  12. 2024-09-23Requester 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 Monroe Township Police Department (Middlesex) 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 Monroe Township Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Monroe Township Police Department in Middlesex County named 10 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 11 investigations, a rate of 110 per 100 officers, below the Middlesex County median of 125 and the 125.9 municipal median. A department that posts a higher rate may be seeing more misconduct or may simply be putting more of its complaints on the record. Of the 11 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, followed by Attendance Issues and Differential Treatment. One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. Monroe Twp received an A on the report card, at the 5th percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a medium-confidence grade.

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

Monroe Township Police Department reported 11 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 Monroe Township Police Department have?

Monroe Township Police Department 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.

Does Monroe Township Police Department encrypt its radio communications?

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

How many officers does Monroe Township Police Department have?

Monroe Township Police Department reported 74 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 6.8% of them female. That is 1.47 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 Monroe Township Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 74 active Monroe Township Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $159,326. Against the Middlesex County school-staff median the ratio is 1.80x. 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 2316. 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 Monroe Township Police Department (Middlesex). 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 Monroe Twp 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 8400. 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 8400. 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 8400. 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 8400. 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 281. 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 1299. 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 1804. 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 785. 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 2316. 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 Monroe Twp 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 Monroe Twp 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 Monroe Twp 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 Monroe Twp 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 Monroe Twp 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 Monroe Twp PD row for 2025. ↩
  21. [21]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8400. 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. ↩
  23. [23]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2245. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩