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Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department

Reported as: Palisades Inter. Parkway PDMunicipal police

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

Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department reported 28 internal affairs investigations in 2025 with 15 officers named in those cases. At 186.7 per 100 officers, its rate ran far above the Bergen County median of 125.3 and the 125.9 municipal median statewide, a difference that can reflect more misconduct or a department that logs a larger share of complaints. None of the 28 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, with Excessive Force and Demeanor next.

No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Palisades Inter. Parkway PD received a C on the report card, at the 40th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, a medium-confidence grade.

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

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

15[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

28[1]

Incidents, 2025

23[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

33[5]

38 years reported

33 sworn officers in 2025, up from 25 in 1961 (+32%).
Yearsworn officers
196125
1962not reported
196328
1964not reported
196528
196629
1967not reported
1968not reported
1969not reported
1970not reported
19710
1972not reported
1973not reported
1974not reported
1975not reported
1976not reported
197731
197831
197931
1980not reported
1981not reported
1982not reported
1983not reported
1984not reported
1985not reported
198631
198731
1988not reported
198930
199030
1991not reported
1992not reported
1993not reported
1994not reported
1995not reported
1996not reported
199726
199826
199927
200025
2001not reported
2002not reported
2003not reported
200427
200529
200626
200723
200825
200925
201026
201128
201225
201326
201426
201526
201630
201727
201826
201926
202026
202131
202233
202333
202433
202533

Civilian employees, 2025

3[6]

0.09 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

3[7]

9.1% of sworn officers

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

How Palisades Interstate Parkway 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
30–3537
35–4027
40–4516
45–5014
50–5510
55–607

Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department: 33 sworn officers: 21st 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

No median officer salary is published for Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department. A department needs at least 10 active officers resolved to it in the NJ Treasury pension file before this site shows a median. That threshold is about the stability of the figure, not about the department. The county-level comparison is on the Bergen 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 Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202118
202210
202313
20246
202528

Incidents

23 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202118
202210
202313
20246
202523

Officers on IA rows

26 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
20246
202526
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 Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
20220
20230
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 26 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation11
Excessive Force4
Demeanor4
Neglect of Duty2
not provided1
Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation1
Differential Treatment1
Sexual Assault/Criminal Sexual Violation1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Excessive Force · Demeanor · Neglect of Duty · Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation · Differential Treatment · Sexual Assault/Criminal Sexual Violation

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, 2025
not provided17
Administratively Closed9
Unfounded1
Sustained1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Demeanor

32 of 75

Demeanor allegations reported by Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202111
20226
20237
20244
20254

Other Departmental Rule Violation

17 of 75

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20220
20232
20242
202511

Excessive Force

7 of 75

Excessive Force allegations reported by Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20221
20230
20240
20254

Differential Treatment

6 of 75

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20222
20231
20240
20251

Other (9 categories)

13 of 75

Other (9 categories) allegations reported by Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20221
20233
20240
20258

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department186.7
County median, municipal police (60)125.3
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.

28 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 33 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[19] = 84.8 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 C: Middle fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
40th percentile of 110 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 Palisades Interstate Parkway 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

Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 15th 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%

79th percentileof 110 peers

141.6 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%

15th percentileof 110 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%

52nd percentileof 110 peers

2.11 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.[20] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025186.734th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20252883rd of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20252381st of 445 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)

A single record in the Fatal Encounters dataset names Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, dated 2017. The dataset gives the force label, as recorded, as Vehicle. Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that documented deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, deaths in police presence, and medical emergencies. A record is not a finding of fault against the agency or any officer, and it is not connected to the Attorney General discipline records elsewhere on this page. The project stopped collecting in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen and nothing after that date appears here.

Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021.[2] 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 Palisades Interstate Parkway 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.

  • Marlon M. Quiros

    May 9, 2017 · Fort Lee · Highest level of force as recorded: Vehicle

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 Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department reported 28 internal affairs investigations in 2025 with 15 officers named in those cases. At 186.7 per 100 officers, its rate ran far above the Bergen County median of 125.3 and the 125.9 municipal median statewide, a difference that can reflect more misconduct or a department that logs a larger share of complaints. None of the 28 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, with Excessive Force and Demeanor next. No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Palisades Inter. Parkway PD received a C on the report card, at the 40th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, a medium-confidence grade.

How many internal affairs investigations did Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department report in 2025?

Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department reported 28 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 15 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department have?

No major discipline records appear for Palisades Interstate Parkway 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.

How many officers does Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department have?

Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department reported 33 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 9.1% 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.

How many deaths during police encounters are recorded for Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 1 record naming Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, from 2017 through 2017. 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.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2097. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]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/ ↩
  3. [3]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Palisades Inter. Parkway PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  4. [4]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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  10. [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1592. 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 573. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
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  13. [13]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 Palisades Inter. Parkway PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  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 Palisades Inter. Parkway PD row for 2021. ↩
  15. [15]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 Palisades Inter. Parkway PD row for 2022. ↩
  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 Palisades Inter. Parkway PD row for 2023. ↩
  17. [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 Palisades Inter. Parkway PD row for 2024. ↩
  18. [18]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 Palisades Inter. Parkway PD row for 2025. ↩
  19. [19]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8644. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  20. [20]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. ↩