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Raritan Township Police Department

Reported as: Raritan 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.

In brief

Raritan Township Police Department, a municipal agency in Hunterdon County, reported 13 internal affairs investigations in 2025 with 10 officers named in those cases. Its rate of 130 per 100 officers sat just above the Hunterdon County median of 129.3 and the 125.9 municipal median. A modest edge over the median can come from more misconduct or from more thorough complaint reporting. None of the 13 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Demeanor was the leading allegation category, with Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise and Differential Treatment also listed.

Two major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022 and 2023. Raritan Twp PD received a D on the report card, at the 71st 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

10[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

13[1]

Incidents, 2025

12[1]

Major discipline records

2

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

43[7]

58 years reported

43 sworn officers in 2025, up from 1 in 1968 (+4200%).
Yearsworn officers
19681
19691
19703
19713
19728
19738
197410
19759
197612
197713
197814
197915
198016
198116
198216
198316
198416
198518
198619
198721
198822
198921
199023
199124
199225
199328
199428
199528
199635
199735
199833
199935
200035
200133
200235
200335
200436
200537
200637
200735
200834
200932
201031
201131
201230
201327
201433
201533
201633
201733
201833
201931
202038
202138
202242
202345
202443
202543

Civilian employees, 2025

2[8]

0.05 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

2[9]

4.7% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

1.67[10]

Municipal departments only

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

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

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

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

Raritan Township Police Department: 43 sworn officers: 65th percentile among Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=111).

The match between this FBI record and this department is this site's inference, not a certified mapping. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Officer pay and school-staff pay

County comparison

A separate dataset from the discipline records above: NJ Treasury pension salaries as of March 31, 2026, for the 36 active Raritan Township Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$131,493[2]

36 active officers

Median school staff

$82,931

Hunterdon County, all TPAF members

Against the county

1.59x

Median officer to Hunterdon 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 Hunterdon 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 Raritan Township Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202114
202213
202319
202417
202513

Incidents

12 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Raritan Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202114
202212
202316
202417
202512

Officers on IA rows

12 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Raritan Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202417
202512
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 Raritan Township Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202215.385
20230
202411.765
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 12 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Raritan Township Police Department, 2025
Demeanor6
not provided3
Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise2
Differential Treatment1
Other Departmental Rule Violation1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Demeanor · Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise · Differential Treatment · Other Departmental Rule Violation

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Raritan Township Police Department, 2025
Exonerated9
Sustained2
not provided2

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Demeanor

40 of 76

Demeanor allegations reported by Raritan Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20217
20226
20239
202412
20256

Other Departmental Rule Violation

14 of 76

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Raritan Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20215
20220
20234
20244
20251

not provided

8 of 76

not provided allegations reported by Raritan Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20224
20231
20240
20253

Domestic violence (Non-Criminal)

3 of 76

Domestic violence (Non-Criminal) allegations reported by Raritan Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20221
20231
20240
20250

Other (8 categories)

11 of 76

Other (8 categories) allegations reported by Raritan Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20222
20234
20241
20253
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Raritan Township Police Department130.0
County median, municipal police (14)129.3
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.

13 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 43 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[22] = 30.2 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 D: Second-highest fifth

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
71st 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 Raritan Township Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

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

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

Raritan Township Police Department: 35.714 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 53rd 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%

78th percentileof 110 peers

140.1 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%

53rd percentileof 110 peers

35.7 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%

41st percentileof 110 peers

2.00 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 officers2025130.0204th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations202513172nd of 445 municipal police
IA incidents202512149th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20252127th of 282 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year1.67406th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.59x96th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present2997th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20221
20231
20240
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Raritan Township Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2023Robert SchenckOfc.Separated while IA pending[24]
2022Robert SchenckOfc.Suspended 10 days[25]

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)

Two records in the Fatal Encounters dataset name Raritan Township Police Department, one from 2000 and one from 2004. The as-recorded force label is Gunshot in both. 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, and it does not say police caused the death. Collection ended in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen at that point.

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 Raritan 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.

  • Steven Gobillot

    October 6, 2004 · Flemington · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

  • Douglas E. Campbell

    November 7, 2000 · Lebanon · 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.[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 Raritan Township, 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 70 filed to Raritan Township are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

29[4]

Identified by subject line, of 99 filed to Raritan Township

Most recent request

October 2025[4]

First recorded April 2018

Awaiting a response

18[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 Raritan Township (requests)
Awaiting agency response18
Delivery error5
Requester reported success2
Requester reported partial success2
Request refused1
Under internal review1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Raritan Township, by date and recorded status. Each was written by a member of the public. A request is a question somebody asked. It is not a finding, not an allegation this site makes, and not evidence that anything happened.

  1. 2025-10-14Request refused
  2. 2025-08-13Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-04-29Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-04-28Awaiting agency response
  5. 2025-04-28Awaiting agency response
  6. 2025-04-28Awaiting agency response
  7. 2025-04-28Awaiting agency response
  8. 2025-04-11Awaiting agency response
  9. 2025-02-22Awaiting agency response
  10. 2025-02-21Requester reported success
  11. 2024-11-28Requester reported success
  12. 2024-08-27Awaiting agency response
Show what each request asked for, as the requester wrote it

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

File your own records request

Anyone can request records from this municipality under the Open Public Records Act. This link opens a request on OPRAmachine, pre-filled with a neutral starting point you can edit or replace before you send it. The request, and any response, will be published there.

File an OPRA request about this department

See every request filed to Raritan Township on OPRAmachine.

What this section can and can't tell you

  • A request is not a finding. Every entry records what a member of the public asked for. None of it establishes that an agency did anything, and none of it is an allegation this site is making.
  • Statuses come from the requester, not the agency. On OPRAmachine the person who filed the request classifies the response they got, so “successful” means they said they got what they asked for. It is not the agency's word and not an adjudication.
  • Request volume is not a measure of misconduct. A long list usually reflects public interest, local journalism, or one determined requester. A short list usually means few people have asked.
  • This covers OPRAmachine only. Most OPRA requests in New Jersey are filed directly with agencies and never appear here, so this is a floor, not a total.
  • It is frozen at 12 July 2026. The figures come from a snapshot of OPRAmachine taken on that date and nothing refreshes them, so anything filed since is missing. Treat every number here as a lower bound that is only getting further out of date.
  • The count is an undercount, by design. Requests to Raritan Township are sorted by subject line, because that custodian also handles permits, property, and code enforcement. A request that is genuinely about the police but carries a vague subject line, and many do read only “OPRA Request,” is not counted here. The sorting is this site's own reading of the request titles, not a fact from the source, and it is deliberately cautious: it would rather miss a police request than show you somebody's building permit.

The match between this OPRAmachine body and this department is this site's inference, not a certified mapping. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Questions and answers

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

Raritan Township Police Department, a municipal agency in Hunterdon County, reported 13 internal affairs investigations in 2025 with 10 officers named in those cases. Its rate of 130 per 100 officers sat just above the Hunterdon County median of 129.3 and the 125.9 municipal median. A modest edge over the median can come from more misconduct or from more thorough complaint reporting. None of the 13 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Demeanor was the leading allegation category, with Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise and Differential Treatment also listed. Two major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022 and 2023. Raritan Twp PD received a D on the report card, at the 71st percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, a medium-confidence grade.

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

Raritan Township Police Department reported 13 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 10 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

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

Raritan Township Police Department has 2 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 0 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How many officers does Raritan Township Police Department have?

Raritan Township Police Department reported 43 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 4.7% of them female. That is 1.67 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 Raritan Township Police Department?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 2 records naming Raritan Township Police Department, from 2000 through 2004. 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 Raritan Township Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 36 active Raritan Township Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $131,493. Against the Hunterdon County school-staff median the ratio is 1.59x. 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 2283. 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/
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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 Raritan Twp PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header.
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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.
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