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New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife

Reported as: NJ Division of Fish and WildlifeState agency

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 New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, a state agency, named 5 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 5 investigations, a rate of 100 per 100 officers. That is below the 130.7 median for state agencies. A lighter rate can mean less misconduct, or an agency that records fewer of the complaints it takes in. Of the 5 investigations detailed for 2025, 1 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation and Demeanor were the leading allegation categories, with Preventable MV Accident also listed.

No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife received an A on the report card, at the 5th percentile among 10 peers in the group of all state 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

5[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

5[1]

Incidents, 2025

4[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

56[3]

15 years reported

56 sworn officers in 2025, up from 0 in 1998.
Yearsworn officers
19980
1999not reported
2000not reported
2001not reported
2002not reported
2003not reported
2004not reported
2005not reported
2006not reported
2007not reported
2008not reported
200951
201049
2011not reported
201249
2013not reported
2014not reported
201549
201646
201748
201847
201945
202051
202148
202252
202354
202456
202556

Civilian employees, 2025

4[4]

0.07 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

4[5]

7.1% of sworn officers

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 New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, by year
Categorycounts
20218
20227
20231
20247
20255

Incidents

4 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, by year
Yearcounts
20217
20227
20231
20246
20254

Officers on IA rows

5 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
20247
20255
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 New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202228.571
20230
202414.286
202520

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 5 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation2
Demeanor2
Preventable MV Accident1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Preventable MV Accident

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, 2025
Unfounded3
Sustained1
Not Sustained1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Demeanor

8 of 28

Demeanor allegations reported by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20222
20230
20242
20252

Other Departmental Rule Violation

7 of 28

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, by year
Yearcounts
20215
20220
20230
20240
20252

Differential Treatment

6 of 28

Differential Treatment allegations reported by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20223
20231
20241
20250

Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency

3 of 28

Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency allegations reported by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20230
20242
20250

Other (3 categories)

4 of 28

Other (3 categories) allegations reported by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20230
20242
20251

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife100.0
County median, state agency (0)not computable
NJ median, state agency (10)130.7

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.

5 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 56 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[17] = 8.9 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 10 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 New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: State agency, all state agencies (n=10)

Discipline severity: State agency, all state agencies
RangeAgencies
0–505
50–1004
100–1500
150–2001

New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 10th percentile among State agency, all state agencies (n=10).

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%

15th percentileof 10 peers

102.9 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%

10th percentileof 10 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%

55th percentileof 10 peers

1.93 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.[18] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025100.08th of 10 state agency
IA investigations202559th of 10 state agency
IA incidents202549th of 10 state agency

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

No records-request history is shown for this department. OPRAmachine, an independent site that files and publishes Open Public Records Act requests, has no public body that confidently matches this department, so this site does not assert one. That does not mean nobody has requested records from it. (Checked against a snapshot of OPRAmachine taken 12 July 2026.) See the methodology for how the match is made.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife's internal affairs and discipline record?

The New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, a state agency, named 5 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 5 investigations, a rate of 100 per 100 officers. That is below the 130.7 median for state agencies. A lighter rate can mean less misconduct, or an agency that records fewer of the complaints it takes in. Of the 5 investigations detailed for 2025, 1 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation and Demeanor were the leading allegation categories, with Preventable MV Accident also listed. No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife received an A on the report card, at the 5th percentile among 10 peers in the group of all state agencies, a medium-confidence grade.

How many internal affairs investigations did New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife report in 2025?

New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife reported 5 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 5 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife have?

No major discipline records appear for New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases. Absence of records is not a finding; discipline is listed only after all appeals conclude.

How many officers does New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife have?

New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife reported 56 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 7.1% 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 2499. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8382. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  4. [4]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8382. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  5. [5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8382. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  6. [6]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 459. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  7. [7]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1480. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  8. [8]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1989. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  9. [9]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 964. 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 2499. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  11. [11]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 NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  12. [12]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 NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife row for 2021. ↩
  13. [13]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 NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife row for 2022. ↩
  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 NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife row for 2023. ↩
  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 NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife row for 2024. ↩
  16. [16]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 NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife row for 2025. ↩
  17. [17]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8382. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  18. [18]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. ↩