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Morris Township Police Department

Reported as: Morris 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

Morris Township Police Department encrypts its radio communications (P25 AES-256, 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

Morris Township Police Department logged 26 internal affairs investigations in 2025 with 18 officers named in those cases, a rate of 144.4 per 100 officers. That exceeds the Morris County median of 116.7 and the 125.9 municipal median, a spread that can indicate more misconduct or a department that documents more of its complaints. Of the 26 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Other Criminal Violation was the leading allegation category, with Demeanor and Other Departmental Rule Violation next. Allegations are not findings.

One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. Morris Twp received an F on the report card, at the 90th 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

18[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

26[1]

Incidents, 2025

26[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

40[6]

63 years reported

40 sworn officers in 2025, up from 18 in 1962 (+122%).
Yearsworn officers
196218
196317
196421
196523
196625
1967not reported
196828
196930
197031
197133
197233
197342
197443
197539
197640
197739
197839
197939
198037
198140
198242
198342
198442
198543
198645
198747
198846
198946
199045
199146
199244
199345
199444
199543
199641
199742
199841
199939
200041
200141
200240
200341
200440
200543
200644
200743
200844
200943
201040
201140
201241
201342
201441
201543
201642
201741
201833
201941
202049
202149
202244
202340
202440
202540

Civilian employees, 2025

5[7]

0.13 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

2[8]

5% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

1.68[9]

Municipal departments only

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

How Morris Township Police Department's sworn staffing compares with its real peer group (same agency type, similar size band), not an assumed bell curve.

Peer group: Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=111)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 30-59 officers
RangeAgencies
30–3538
35–4027
40–4515
45–5014
50–5510
55–607

Morris Township Police Department: 40 sworn officers: 58th 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 44 active Morris Township Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$111,175[2]

44 active officers

Median local school staff

$82,793

MORRIS SCHOOL DISTRICT, 602 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.34x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.26x

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 "MORRIS SCHOOL DISTRICT", 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)

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 Morris Township Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202138
202230
202325
202430
202526

Incidents

26 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Morris Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202138
202230
202325
202430
202526

Officers on IA rows

25 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Morris Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202430
202525
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 Morris Township Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202220
202324
202416.667
20257.692

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 25 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Morris Township Police Department, 2025
Other Criminal Violation13
Demeanor4
Other Departmental Rule Violation4
BWC/MVR Violation2
Sexual Assault/Criminal Sexual Violation1
False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal)1
Harassment/Stalking1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Criminal Violation · Demeanor · Other Departmental Rule Violation · BWC/MVR Violation · Sexual Assault/Criminal Sexual Violation · False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal) · Harassment/Stalking

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Morris Township Police Department, 2025
Unfounded11
not provided8
Not Sustained4
Sustained2
Administratively Closed1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

45 of 149

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Morris Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202118
20224
20237
202412
20254

Other Criminal Violation

36 of 149

Other Criminal Violation allegations reported by Morris Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20214
20222
20237
202410
202513

Demeanor

24 of 149

Demeanor allegations reported by Morris Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20219
20224
20235
20242
20254

Differential Treatment

12 of 149

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Morris Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20217
20222
20232
20241
20250

Other (15 categories)

32 of 149

Other (15 categories) allegations reported by Morris Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
202218
20234
20245
20255

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Morris Township Police Department144.4
County median, municipal police (35)116.7
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.

26 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 40 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[21] = 65.0 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
90th percentile of 110 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Morris Township Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=110)

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

Morris Township Police Department: 10.526 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 31st 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%

97th percentileof 110 peers

161.0 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%

31st percentileof 110 peers

10.5 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%

84th percentileof 110 peers

2.49 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 officers2025144.4137th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20252690th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20252670th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20251184th of 282 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year1.68401st of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.26x270th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present18220th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20220
20231
20240
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Morris Township Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2023Mohamed NassarPatrol OfficerSuspended 64 daysSeparated while IA pending[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.

This department has no separate listing on OPRAmachine. Records requests for it are handled through Morris Township, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 18 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 58 filed to Morris Township are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

18[3]

Identified by subject line, of 76 filed to Morris Township

Most recent request

July 2026[3]

First recorded November 2017

Awaiting a response

11[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 police-related records requests to Morris Township (requests)
Awaiting agency response11
Requester reported partial success3
Delivery error2
Agency said records not held1
Withdrawn by requester1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Morris Township, 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. 2026-07-09Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-12-08Requester reported partial success
  3. 2025-05-31Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-05-30Awaiting agency response
  5. 2024-07-31Awaiting agency response
  6. 2024-04-09Requester reported partial success
  7. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  8. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  9. 2023-04-04Delivery error
  10. 2021-05-18Agency said records not held
  11. 2021-04-20Delivery error
  12. 2020-07-14Awaiting agency response
Show what each request asked for, as the requester wrote it

These titles are quoted from OPRAmachine exactly as the requester typed them. They are the requester's words, not this site's, and some describe what the requester believed or suspected. Nothing here has been established as fact.

File your own records request

Anyone can request records from this 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 Morris Township 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 Morris Township 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

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

Morris Township Police Department logged 26 internal affairs investigations in 2025 with 18 officers named in those cases, a rate of 144.4 per 100 officers. That exceeds the Morris County median of 116.7 and the 125.9 municipal median, a spread that can indicate more misconduct or a department that documents more of its complaints. Of the 26 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Other Criminal Violation was the leading allegation category, with Demeanor and Other Departmental Rule Violation next. Allegations are not findings. One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. Morris Twp received an F on the report card, at the 90th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Morris Township Police Department reported 26 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 18 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Morris Township Police Department have?

Morris 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 Morris Township Police Department encrypt its radio communications?

According to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, Morris Township Police Department encrypts all of its radio communications (P25 AES-256), 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 Morris Township Police Department have?

Morris Township Police Department reported 40 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 5% of them female. That is 1.68 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 Morris Township Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 44 active Morris Township Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $111,175. The median for the 602 TPAF-enrolled staff at MORRIS SCHOOL DISTRICT is $82,793, a ratio of 1.34x. Against the Morris County school-staff median the ratio is 1.26x. 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 2397. 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 Morris Township. 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 Morris 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 8487. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
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  10. [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 364. 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 1381. 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 1886. 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 867. 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 2397. 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 Morris 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 Morris 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 Morris 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 Morris 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 Morris 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 Morris Twp PD row for 2025. ↩
  21. [21]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8487. 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 1830. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩