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Ridgewood Village Police Department

Reported as: Ridgewood Village PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

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

Ridgewood Village Police Department is a municipal police agency in Bergen County. It named 15 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 16 investigations, a rate of 106.7 per 100 officers, below both the county median of 125.3 and the 125.9 municipal median. Where a rate trails the medians, the reason can be less misconduct or a department that logs fewer of its complaints. Of the 16 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the categories, followed by Improper Entry and Demeanor.

Two major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2020 and 2024. Ridgewood Village received a B on the report card, at the 24th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers band, 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

16[1]

Incidents, 2025

6[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

49[6]

66 years reported

49 sworn officers in 2025, up from 41 in 1960 (+20%).
Yearsworn officers
196041
196140
196240
196340
196438
196539
196641
196741
196840
196942
197042
197145
197247
197346
197446
197546
197645
197745
197847
197947
198041
198142
198247
198346
198447
198549
198649
198745
198848
198948
199048
199146
199244
199344
199441
199541
199642
199741
199841
199942
200045
200144
200242
200344
200446
200543
200644
200743
200842
200943
201040
201141
201240
201341
201442
201542
201643
201745
201847
201947
202045
202145
202248
202344
202444
202549

Civilian employees, 2025

11[7]

0.22 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

2[8]

4.1% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

1.82[9]

Municipal departments only

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

How Ridgewood Village 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
40–4516
45–5013
50–5510
55–607

Ridgewood Village Police Department: 49 sworn officers: 83rd 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 48 active Ridgewood Village Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$151,789[2]

48 active officers

Median local school staff

$106,223

RIDGEWOOD TWP BD OF ED, 550 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.43x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.66x

Median officer to Bergen 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 "RIDGEWOOD TWP 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 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 Ridgewood Village Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
20215
202215
202318
202410
202516

Incidents

6 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Ridgewood Village Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20214
202213
202314
20247
20256

Officers on IA rows

16 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Ridgewood Village Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202410
202516
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 Ridgewood Village Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202240
202316.667
20240
202512.5

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 16 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Ridgewood Village Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation10
Improper Entry3
Demeanor2
Differential Treatment1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Improper Entry · Demeanor · Differential Treatment

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Ridgewood Village Police Department, 2025
Not Sustained6
Exonerated6
Sustained2
not provided1
Unfounded1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

16 of 64

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Ridgewood Village Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20235
20241
202510

Demeanor

14 of 64

Demeanor allegations reported by Ridgewood Village Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20223
20235
20243
20252

Assault

5 of 64

Assault allegations reported by Ridgewood Village Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20230
20244
20250

Harassment/Stalking

4 of 64

Harassment/Stalking allegations reported by Ridgewood Village Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20232
20241
20250

Other (14 categories)

25 of 64

Other (14 categories) allegations reported by Ridgewood Village Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20214
202210
20236
20241
20254

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Ridgewood Village Police Department106.7
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.

16 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 49 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[21] = 32.7 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 B: Second-lowest fifth

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
24th 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 Ridgewood Village 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

Ridgewood Village Police Department: 34.483 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 50th 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%

12th percentileof 110 peers

109.3 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%

50th percentileof 110 peers

34.5 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%

72nd percentileof 110 peers

2.33 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.[22] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025106.7321st of 445 municipal police
IA investigations202516139th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20256244th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20252127th of 282 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year1.82362nd of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.66x66th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present18220th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, down from 1 in 2020 (-100%).
Yearmajor discipline records
20201
20210
20220
20230
20241
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, down from 1 in 2020 (-100%).

Major discipline records reported by Ridgewood Village Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2024Michael LemboSergeantSuspended 7 days[23]
2020Peter YoungbergOfficerSuspended 30 days[24]

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

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.[3] 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.

Police-related requests

18[3]

Every request filed to this department

Most recent request

April 2026[3]

First recorded February 2020

Awaiting a response

7[3]

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 records requests to Ridgewood Police Department (requests)
Awaiting agency response6
Requester reported success6
Requester reported partial success3
Agency said records not held1
Delivery error1
Awaiting clarification1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent requests to Ridgewood Police Department, 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. 2026-04-03Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-12-15Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-12-08Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-10-30Agency said records not held
  5. 2025-10-05Awaiting agency response
  6. 2025-08-13Requester reported success
  7. 2025-05-09Requester reported partial success
  8. 2024-08-07Delivery error
  9. 2023-09-12Requester reported success
  10. 2023-08-29Awaiting agency response
  11. 2023-06-02Awaiting agency response
  12. 2023-03-11Requester 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 department 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 Ridgewood Police Department 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 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 Ridgewood Village Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Ridgewood Village Police Department is a municipal police agency in Bergen County. It named 15 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 16 investigations, a rate of 106.7 per 100 officers, below both the county median of 125.3 and the 125.9 municipal median. Where a rate trails the medians, the reason can be less misconduct or a department that logs fewer of its complaints. Of the 16 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the categories, followed by Improper Entry and Demeanor. Two major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2020 and 2024. Ridgewood Village received a B on the report card, at the 24th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers band, a medium-confidence grade.

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

Ridgewood Village Police Department reported 16 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 Ridgewood Village Police Department have?

Ridgewood Village 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 Ridgewood Village Police Department have?

Ridgewood Village Police Department reported 49 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 4.1% of them female. That is 1.82 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 does Ridgewood Village Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 48 active Ridgewood Village Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $151,789. The median for the 550 TPAF-enrolled staff at RIDGEWOOD TWP BD OF ED is $106,223, a ratio of 1.43x. Against the Bergen County school-staff median the ratio is 1.66x. 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 2104. 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]Records-request activity for Ridgewood Police Department. 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. ↩
  4. [4]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Ridgewood Village PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  5. [5]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.
  6. [6]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8180. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
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  10. [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 70. 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 1088. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  12. [12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1599. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  13. [13]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 579. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  14. [14]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2104. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  15. [15]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Ridgewood Village PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  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 Ridgewood Village PD row for 2021. ↩
  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 Ridgewood Village PD row for 2022. ↩
  18. [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 Ridgewood Village PD row for 2023. ↩
  19. [19]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 Ridgewood Village PD row for 2024. ↩
  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 Ridgewood Village PD row for 2025. ↩
  21. [21]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8180. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  22. [22]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. ↩
  23. [23]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 887. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  24. [24]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2800. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩