Department profile · Essex County

Orange Police Department

Reported as: Orange PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

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

In brief

Twelve major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, including 2 terminations. Orange PD received an F on the report card, at the 92nd 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

63^{^[1]}

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

IA investigations, 2025

109^{^[1]}

Incidents, 2025

88^{^[1]}

Major discipline records

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

150^{^[8]}

66 years reported

150 sworn officers in 2025, up from 79 in 1960 (+90%).
Year	sworn officers
1960	79
1961	77
1962	80
1963	80
1964	74
1965	81
1966	76
1967	83
1968	86
1969	91
1970	90
1971	88
1972	103
1973	107
1974	106
1975	105
1976	104
1977	116
1978	109
1979	99
1980	98
1981	99
1982	95
1983	93
1984	93
1985	96
1986	96
1987	91
1988	91
1989	87
1990	93
1991	97
1992	97
1993	105
1994	99
1995	102
1996	117
1997	119
1998	112
1999	116
2000	113
2001	109
2002	106
2003	115
2004	109
2005	114
2006	104
2007	107
2008	114
2009	107
2010	106
2011	109
2012	109
2013	104
2014	102
2015	101
2016	97
2017	101
2018	114
2019	122
2020	134
2021	147
2022	134
2023	151
2024	150
2025	150

Civilian employees, 2025

17^{^[9]}

0.11 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

25^{^[10]}

16.7% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

4.26^{^[11]}

Municipal departments only

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

How Orange 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
Range	Agencies
0–200	84
200–400	5
400–600	1
600–800	1
800–1000	0
1000–1200	1

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Orange Police Department: 150 sworn officers: 82nd 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 114 active Orange Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$111,016^{^[3]}

114 active officers

Median local school staff

$83,440

ORANGE CITY BD OF ED, 656 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.33x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.23x

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 "ORANGE CITY BD OF ED", 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)

In brief

Written by this site from the figures below.

Orange Police Department received 51 recorded line items between 2023 and 2025, all of them in categories this site classes as tactical and together recorded at $1,231,638 in original Department of Defense acquisition cost rather than current or market value. Fifty of the line items are Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation, recorded at $1,039,125, and the remaining entry is Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled at $192,513. Recent as those shipments are, the file still records transfers received rather than a current inventory, and non-controlled items may be disposed of after one year. Receiving surplus equipment through the program is not misconduct, and this federal data is separate in origin from the Attorney General discipline records on this page.

Surplus military equipment transferred to this agency under the Defense Department's 1033 program, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency.

Total recorded value

$1,231,638^{^[2]}

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$1,231,638^{^[2]}

51 of 51 line items classed tactical

Transfer window

2023-2025^{^[2]}

Earliest to latest recorded ship date

Quantities received, by unit of issue: 51 items (Each). Units of issue differ (an item and a kit are not the same thing), so no single combined item count exists.

Top categories by recorded value

Top 1033 equipment categories received by Orange Police Department, by recorded value (original DoD acquisition cost, dollars)
Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation	1,039,125 tactical
Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled	192,513 tactical

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Categories received: tactical vs mundane

Each category is classed tactical or mundane by this site's published classification of its Federal Supply Class. Much of what moves through the program is mundane surplus (tools, office and medical equipment); the tactical rows are what the Militarization Index below measures.

1033 equipment categories received by Orange Police Department, grouped tactical vs mundane
Category	Class	Line items	Quantity received	Recorded value (original cost)
Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiationNight vision and thermal imaging · FSC 5855	Tactical	50	50 items (Each)	$1,039,125
Trucks and truck tractors, wheeledMilitary trucks · FSC 2320	Tactical	1	1 items (Each)	$192,513

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1033 program transfers recorded for Orange Police Department, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency
Item	Category	Qty	Recorded valueOriginal DoD cost	Ship date	DEMIL
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-477-8738Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$7,481	2025-09-20	D
IMAGE INTENSIFIER,NIGHT VISIONNSN 5855-01-584-7217Shipped 2025-09-20 · DEMIL D	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$34,084	2025-09-20	D
TRUCK,UTILITYNSN 2320-01-413-3739Shipped 2023-07-11 · DEMIL C	Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled Tactical	1 Each	$192,513	2023-07-11	C

51 of 51 recorded transfers shown. Quantities are per unit of issue and are never summed across units. DEMIL code A: non-controlled property, may be disposed of after one year (so a listed item is not necessarily still held). Codes such as C, D, F, and Q: controlled property with federal return or demilitarization requirements.

AnalysisMilitarization Index: computed by this site, not an official statistic.

Orange Police Department received $8,211 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 89th percentile among municipal police agencies of similar size (60+ officers, n=93).

Peer group: Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=93)

Tactical 1033 value per sworn officer: Municipal police, 60+ officers
Range	Agencies
0–5000	76
5000–10000	8
10000–15000	6
15000–20000	2

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Orange Police Department: 8,211 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 89th percentile among Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=93).

A higher index is not automatically worse. It divides cumulative transfers over the covered window by current staffing, so it measures how intensively an agency has participated in the program, not what it holds today. See the methodology.

Statewide totals, per-county rollups, and the top categories across all of New Jersey are on the 1033 program overview.

Internal affairs investigations by year

counts

Internal affairs investigations reported by Orange Police Department, by year
Category	counts
2021	94
2022	53
2023	133
2024	111
2025	109

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Incidents

88 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Orange Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	73
2022	49
2023	99
2024	88
2025	88

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Officers on IA rows

108 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Orange Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	not reported
2022	not reported
2023	not reported
2024	110
2025	108

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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 Orange Police Department, by year
Year	share of total
2021	0
2022	32.075
2023	53.383
2024	39.64
2025	46.789

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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 108 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Orange Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation	31
Attendance Issues	17
Demeanor	16
Preventable MV Accident	7
Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert	6
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency	6
Improper Arrest	5
BWC/MVR Violation	4

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AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Attendance Issues · Demeanor · Preventable MV Accident · Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency · Improper Arrest · BWC/MVR Violation

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Orange Police Department, 2025
Sustained	52
not provided	18
Not Sustained	13
Exonerated	11
Administratively Closed	10
Unfounded	5

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Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

132 of 500

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Orange Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	51
2022	15
2023	12
2024	23
2025	31

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BWC/MVR Violation

67 of 500

BWC/MVR Violation allegations reported by Orange Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	0
2023	53
2024	10
2025	4

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Demeanor

59 of 500

Demeanor allegations reported by Orange Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	9
2022	11
2023	11
2024	12
2025	16

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Excessive Force

28 of 500

Excessive Force allegations reported by Orange Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	8
2022	2
2023	4
2024	11
2025	3

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Other (19 categories)

214 of 500

Other (19 categories) allegations reported by Orange Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	26
2022	25
2023	53
2024	55
2025	55

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Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →

Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Orange Police Department	173.0
County median, municipal police (22)	158.6
NJ median, municipal police (445)	125.9

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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.

109 investigations reported for 2025^[1] ÷ 150 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025^[23] = 72.7 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: 92nd percentile of 93 peers
Confidence: High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Orange 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
Range	Agencies
0–50	66
50–100	25
100–150	1
150–200	1

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Orange Police Department: 45.307 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 64th 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%

87th percentileof 93 peers

159.7 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%

64th percentileof 93 peers

45.3 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%

54th percentileof 93 peers

2.02 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.^[24] How each metric is defined.

This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
Metric	Value	Rank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025	173.0	48th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations2025	109	14th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents2025	88	12th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-2025	12	15th of 282 municipal police
Terminations2020-2025	2	15th of 111 municipal police
Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30	$8,211	32nd of 163 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year	4.26	57th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-31	1.23x	288th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present	29	97th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

4 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.
Year	major discipline records
2020	0
2021	1
2022	3
2023	1
2024	3
2025	4

4 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.

Major discipline records reported by Orange Police Department, 2020-2025
Year	Officer	Rank	Sanction as reported	Src
2025	Reagen Pierre	Officer	Suspended 15 days	^[25]
2025	Reagen Pierre	Officer	Suspended 6 days	^[26]
2025	Reagen Pierre	Officer	Terminated	^[27]
2025	Jamar Reid	Officer	Terminated	^[28]
2024	Daniel Longo	Officer	Suspended 10 days	^[29]
2024	Eyon Conway	Officer	Suspended 30 days	^[30]
2024	Keenan Rogers	Officer	Suspended 45 days	^[31]
2023	Lamar Payne	Officer	Suspended 6 days	^[32]
2022	Denise Banks	Sergeant	Suspended (days not reported)	^[33]
2022	Richard Adrianzen	Officer	Suspended 75 days	^[34]
2022	Quenton Boyd	Detective	Suspended 30 days	^[35]
2021	Jason Spates	Officer	Suspended 75 days	^[36]

Every name links to the officer's record page with the agency's full synopsis and citation.

Fatal encounters recorded involving this agency

From the independent Fatal Encounters dataset, 2000-2021

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

Five records in the Fatal Encounters dataset name Orange Police Department, in years from 2001 through 2019. The as-recorded level of force is listed as Gunshot in three of them and Vehicle in two. Fatal Encounters was an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that logged deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits and crashes, deaths by suicide in police presence, and medical emergencies. A record is not a finding of fault, and it does not say police caused the death. The project stopped collecting in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen at that date.

Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021.^[4] 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 Orange 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.

Jamahl Smith
July 13, 2019 · City of Orange · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot
James Walsh
February 9, 2009 · South Orange · Highest level of force as recorded: Vehicle
Dennis W. "Denny" Howard III
November 5, 2005 · East Orange · Highest level of force as recorded: Vehicle
Guy Fisher Jr.
December 24, 2003 · Orange · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot
Shuntez Everett
January 12, 2001 · Orange · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

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.^[5] 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 Orange City, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 29 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 150 filed to Orange City are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

29^{^[5]}

Identified by subject line, of 179 filed to Orange City

Most recent request

August 2025^{^[5]}

First recorded May 2020

Awaiting a response

25^{^[5]}

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 Orange City (requests)
Awaiting agency response	25
Requester reported success	2
Request refused	1
Under internal review	1

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Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Orange City, 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.

2025-08-16Awaiting agency response
2025-08-16Awaiting agency response
2025-05-31Awaiting agency response
2025-05-30Awaiting agency response
2025-04-29Awaiting agency response
2025-04-28Awaiting agency response
2025-04-28Awaiting agency response
2025-04-07Awaiting agency response
2025-04-04Request refused
2025-04-04Under internal review
2025-02-19Requester reported success
2025-01-28Requester 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.

A member of the public requested: “Arrest reports of incident case #23-040134”
2025-08-16 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Arrest reports of incident case #2023-019891”
2025-08-16 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Arrest reports of incident case #H 13-23”
2025-05-31 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Arrest reports of incident case #23-4936”
2025-05-30 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Arrest reports of incident case #2023-10624”
2025-04-29 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Arrest reports of incident case #23-063260”
2025-04-28 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Arrest reports of incident case #23-57657”
2025-04-28 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Police Report request”
2025-04-07 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “DWI Arrest June 1st 2024”
2025-04-04 · Request refused
A member of the public requested: “DWI June 2nd 2024”
2025-04-04 · Under internal review
A member of the public requested: “Law Enforcement”
2025-02-19 · Requester reported success
A member of the public requested: “Law Enforcement”
2025-01-28 · Requester reported success

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 Orange City 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 Orange City 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 Orange Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Orange Police Department logged 109 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 63 officers named in those cases, a rate of 173 per 100 officers. Both benchmarks sit lower: the Essex County median of 158.6 and the 125.9 statewide municipal median. A rate that far above them can mean more misconduct, or a department that documents more of the complaints it fields. Of the 109 investigations detailed for 2025, 51 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, followed by Attendance Issues and Demeanor. Twelve major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, including 2 terminations. Orange PD received an F on the report card, at the 92nd percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Orange Police Department reported 109 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 63 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Orange Police Department have?

Orange Police Department has 12 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 2 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How many officers does Orange Police Department have?

Orange Police Department reported 150 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 16.7% of them female. That is 4.26 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 military surplus equipment has Orange Police Department received through the 1033 program?

Orange Police Department received 51 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program between 2023 and 2025, with a total recorded value of $1,231,638 (original DoD acquisition cost, not current or market value). The largest category by recorded value was: Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation. Transfers are as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency as of 2026-06-30; equipment acquired through the program is not necessarily still held.

What is the total recorded value of the 1033 equipment Orange Police Department received?

The surplus equipment recorded for Orange Police Department under the 1033 program totals $1,231,638 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $1,231,638 is in categories this site classes as tactical (51 of 51 line items). These are original-cost figures at the time of transfer, not current or market value.

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

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 5 records naming Orange Police Department, from 2001 through 2019. 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 Orange Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 114 active Orange Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $111,016. The median for the 656 TPAF-enrolled staff at ORANGE CITY BD OF ED is $83,440, a ratio of 1.33x. Against the Essex County school-staff median the ratio is 1.23x. 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]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2228. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[2]DoD 1033 Program transfers (LESO Public Information), New Jersey sheet. Defense Logistics Agency (U.S. Department of Defense). LESO Public Information: DISP_AllStatesAndTerritories, quarterly file as of 2026-06-30; recorded ship dates 1993-2026. Retrieved 2026-07-10. https://www.dla.mil/Disposition-Services/Offers/Law-Enforcement/Public-Information/ ↩
[3]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. ↩
[4]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/ ↩
[5]Records-request activity for Orange City. 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. ↩
[6]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Orange PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[7]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.
[8]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8301. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[9]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8301. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[10]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8301. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[11]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8301. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 199. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[13]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1213. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[14]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1722. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[15]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 705. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[16]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2228. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[17]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 Orange PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
[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 Orange PD row for 2021. ↩
[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 Orange PD row for 2022. ↩
[20]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 Orange PD row for 2023. ↩
[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 Orange PD row for 2024. ↩
[22]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 Orange PD row for 2025. ↩
[23]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8301. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[24]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. ↩
[25]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 335. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[26]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 336. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[27]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 337. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[28]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 338. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[29]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1080. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[30]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1081. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[31]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1082. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[32]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1679. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[33]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2183. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[34]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2184. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[35]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2185. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[36]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2557. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩