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Ocean Township Police Department

Reported as: Ocean 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

Ocean 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

Ocean Township Police Department reported 15 internal affairs investigations in 2025 with 12 officers named in those cases, a rate of 125 per 100 officers. That matches the Monmouth County median of 125 and sits just under the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Where a rate lands relative to the median says little on its own, since volume can follow misconduct or follow a department's willingness to record complaints. None of the 15 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Demeanor was the leading allegation category, with Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation and Neglect of Duty also listed.

No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Ocean Twp PD received an A on the report card, at the 6th percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ 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

12[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

15[1]

Incidents, 2025

15[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

63[7]

60 years reported

63 sworn officers in 2025, up from 21 in 1962 (+200%).
Yearsworn officers
196221
196324
1964not reported
196525
1966not reported
1967not reported
196830
196929
197032
197134
197236
197344
197449
197549
197647
197759
197854
197958
198058
198158
198258
198358
198458
198558
198661
198761
198862
198961
199060
199159
199260
199355
199457
199556
199658
199759
199859
199959
200057
200159
200257
200362
200460
200560
200662
200761
200863
200963
201061
201160
201259
201357
201459
201561
201661
201763
201863
201962
202061
202163
202261
2023not reported
202463
202563

Civilian employees, 2025

14[8]

0.22 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

5[9]

7.9% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

2.24[10]

Municipal departments only

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

How Ocean 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

Ocean Township Police Department: 63 sworn officers: 10th 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 61 active Ocean Township Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$142,669[2]

61 active officers

Median school staff

$86,935

Monmouth County, all TPAF members

Against the county

1.64x

Median officer to Monmouth 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 Monmouth 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 Ocean Township Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202122
202217
202314
202432
202515

Incidents

15 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Ocean Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202122
202215
202314
202422
202515

Officers on IA rows

14 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Ocean Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202431
202514
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 Ocean Township Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202211.765
202328.571
20240
20250

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 14 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Ocean Township Police Department, 2025
Demeanor10
not provided1
Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation1
Neglect of Duty1
Domestic violence (Non-Criminal)1
Other Departmental Rule Violation1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Demeanor · Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation · Neglect of Duty · Domestic violence (Non-Criminal) · Other Departmental Rule Violation

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Ocean Township Police Department, 2025
Unfounded9
Administratively Closed3
Exonerated2
Sustained1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Demeanor

33 of 100

Demeanor allegations reported by Ocean Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202112
20225
20230
20246
202510

Differential Treatment

13 of 100

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Ocean Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20222
20234
20245
20250

Other Departmental Rule Violation

12 of 100

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Ocean Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20215
20221
20232
20243
20251

Improper Arrest

9 of 100

Improper Arrest allegations reported by Ocean Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20221
20231
20246
20250

Other (12 categories)

33 of 100

Other (12 categories) allegations reported by Ocean Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20228
20237
202412
20254

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Ocean Township Police Department125.0
County median, municipal police (41)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.

15 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 63 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[22] = 23.8 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 A: Lowest fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
6th percentile of 93 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Ocean 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

Ocean Township Police Department: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 2nd 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%

17th percentileof 93 peers

114.6 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%

2nd percentileof 93 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%

89th percentileof 93 peers

2.46 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.[23] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025125.0226th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations202515153rd of 445 municipal police
IA incidents202515122nd of 445 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year2.24262nd of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.64x71st of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present22156th 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.

Fatal encounters recorded involving this agency

From the independent Fatal Encounters dataset, 2000-2021

In brief (written by this site from the records below)

One record in the Fatal Encounters dataset names Ocean Township Police Department in Monmouth County, from 2005. The dataset's own as-recorded force label for that record is Vehicle. Fatal Encounters was an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that documented deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, medical emergencies, and suicides in police presence. A record is not a finding of fault against the agency or any officer, and it is separate from the Attorney General discipline data reported elsewhere on this site. The project stopped collecting in December 2021, so the dataset ends there.

Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021.[3] It records all deaths that occurred during a police encounter of any kind: vehicle pursuits, suicides in police presence, and medical emergencies are included alongside uses of force. A record appears here because Ocean Township Police Departmentis named in the record's as-reported agency field. A listing is not a misconduct finding, and it is not connected to the Attorney General discipline records above. See the methodology. Each record links to its own page with the full as-reported details.

  • Princess Young

    December 18, 2005 · Eatontown · Highest level of force as recorded: Vehicle

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.[4] 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 Ocean Township (Monmouth), the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 22 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 87 filed to Ocean Township (Monmouth) are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

22[4]

Identified by subject line, of 109 filed to Ocean Township (Monmouth)

Most recent request

January 2026[4]

First recorded November 2017

Awaiting a response

12[4]

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 Ocean Township (Monmouth) (requests)
Awaiting agency response12
Requester reported success4
Request refused2
Under internal review1
Delivery error1
Requester reported partial success1
Withdrawn by requester1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Ocean Township (Monmouth), 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. 2026-01-03Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-09-15Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-07-21Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-02-24Under internal review
  5. 2024-09-04Awaiting agency response
  6. 2024-07-29Awaiting agency response
  7. 2024-07-25Delivery error
  8. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  9. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  10. 2021-04-20Requester reported success
  11. 2021-03-01Requester reported success
  12. 2021-02-20Requester 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 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 Ocean Township (Monmouth) 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 Ocean Township (Monmouth) 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 Ocean Township Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Ocean Township Police Department reported 15 internal affairs investigations in 2025 with 12 officers named in those cases, a rate of 125 per 100 officers. That matches the Monmouth County median of 125 and sits just under the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Where a rate lands relative to the median says little on its own, since volume can follow misconduct or follow a department's willingness to record complaints. None of the 15 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Demeanor was the leading allegation category, with Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation and Neglect of Duty also listed. No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Ocean Twp PD received an A on the report card, at the 6th percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Ocean Township Police Department reported 15 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 12 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

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

No major discipline records appear for Ocean Township 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 Ocean Township Police Department encrypt its radio communications?

According to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, Ocean 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 Ocean Township Police Department have?

Ocean Township Police Department reported 63 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 7.9% of them female. That is 2.24 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.

How many deaths during police encounters are recorded for Ocean Township Police Department?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 1 record naming Ocean Township Police Department, from 2005 through 2005. Fatal Encounters is a crowdsourced journalism project, not a government source, and it documented deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind. Each record links to a page showing it exactly as the project recorded it.

What does Ocean Township Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 61 active Ocean Township Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $142,669. Against the Monmouth County school-staff median the ratio is 1.64x. 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 2363. 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]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Fatal Encounters national dataset (2000-2021); collection ended December 2021. Retrieved 2026-07-10. https://fatalencounters.org/ ↩
  4. [4]Records-request activity for Ocean Township (Monmouth). 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. ↩
  5. [5]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Ocean Twp PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  6. [6]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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  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 Ocean Twp PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  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 Ocean Twp PD row for 2021. ↩
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  19. [19]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 Ocean Twp PD row for 2023. ↩
  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 Ocean Twp PD row for 2024. ↩
  21. [21]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 Ocean Twp PD row for 2025. ↩
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  23. [23]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. ↩