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Roselle Park Police Department

Reported as: Roselle Park 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

Roselle Park Police Department is a municipal police agency in Union County. It named 9 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 16 investigations, a rate of 177.8 per 100 officers, above the Union County median of 137 and the 125.9 municipal median. A rate that high can reflect a heavier volume of misconduct or a department that puts more of its complaints on the record. Of the 16 investigations detailed for 2025, 3 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, with Demeanor and Improper Arrest next.

No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Roselle Park received a B on the report card, at the 27th 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

9[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

16[1]

Incidents, 2025

13[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

34[7]

65 years reported

34 sworn officers in 2025, up from 21 in 1960 (+62%).
Yearsworn officers
196021
196121
196221
196322
196421
196522
196623
1967not reported
196826
196929
197029
197129
197226
197332
197430
197529
197630
197730
197830
197930
198029
198131
198230
198330
198430
198530
198629
198731
198831
198931
199031
199131
199231
199330
199433
199533
199633
199732
199834
199934
200034
200134
200234
200333
200434
200534
200635
200734
200834
200934
201034
201134
201233
201334
201434
201534
201634
201734
201834
201934
202034
202134
202234
202334
202434
202534

Civilian employees, 2025

2[8]

0.06 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

2[9]

5.9% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

2.35[10]

Municipal departments only

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

How Roselle Park 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

Roselle Park Police Department: 34 sworn officers: 29th 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 33 active Roselle Park Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$132,489[2]

33 active officers

Median local school staff

$87,176

ROSELLE PARK BORO BD OF ED, 233 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.52x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.48x

Median officer to Union 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 "ROSELLE PARK BORO 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 Union 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 Roselle Park Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
20218
20226
202312
202415
202516

Incidents

13 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Roselle Park Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20217
20225
202310
202411
202513

Officers on IA rows

16 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Roselle Park Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202415
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 Roselle Park Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202250
20238.333
202433.333
202518.75

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 Roselle Park Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation6
Demeanor5
Improper Arrest2
Differential Treatment2
False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal)1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Improper Arrest · Differential Treatment · False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal)

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Roselle Park Police Department, 2025
Exonerated6
Sustained4
Unfounded4
not provided1
Administratively Closed1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

22 of 57

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Roselle Park Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20214
20222
20238
20242
20256

BWC/MVR Violation

6 of 57

BWC/MVR Violation allegations reported by Roselle Park Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20230
20245
20250

Demeanor

6 of 57

Demeanor allegations reported by Roselle Park Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20231
20240
20255

Excessive Force

4 of 57

Excessive Force allegations reported by Roselle Park Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20222
20231
20241
20250

Other (9 categories)

19 of 57

Other (9 categories) allegations reported by Roselle Park Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20214
20221
20232
20247
20255

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Roselle Park Police Department177.8
County median, municipal police (23)137.0
NJ median, municipal police (445)125.9

Investigations per 100 officers named in that year's IA investigations (the Attorney General's own "Number of Officers" field, a distinct-officer count drawn from the IA case data itself, not a department headcount). A higher number is ambiguous on its own: it can reflect more misconduct, or a stronger internal reporting culture. Medians are computed within the same agency type only.

AnalysisA second, independent rate using FBI-reported staffing instead.

16 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 34 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[22] = 47.1 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
27th 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 Roselle Park 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

Roselle Park 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%

66th percentileof 110 peers

131.2 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%

44th percentileof 110 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.[23] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025177.843rd of 445 municipal police
IA investigations202516139th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents202513138th of 445 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year2.35226th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.48x150th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present13325th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

No major discipline records appear for this agency in the 2020-2025 releases. Absence of records is not a finding; see the methodology for what this data does and does not cover.

Fatal encounters recorded involving this agency

From the independent Fatal Encounters dataset, 2000-2021

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

One record in the Fatal Encounters dataset names Roselle Park Police Department, from 2020. The as-recorded level of force in that record is listed as Gunshot. Fatal Encounters was an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that logged deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including pursuits, 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.[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 Roselle Park 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.

  • Edward Nortrup

    January 19, 2020 · Matawan · 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 Roselle Park Borough, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 13 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 100 filed to Roselle Park Borough are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

13[4]

Identified by subject line, of 113 filed to Roselle Park Borough

Most recent request

April 2026[4]

First recorded May 2020

Awaiting a response

9[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 Roselle Park Borough (requests)
Awaiting agency response9
Requester reported success2
Requester reported partial success2

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Roselle Park Borough, 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. 2026-04-27Requester reported success
  2. 2025-10-24Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-09-15Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-04-28Awaiting agency response
  5. 2024-05-06Requester reported success
  6. 2024-04-12Requester reported partial success
  7. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  8. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  9. 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
  10. 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
  11. 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
  12. 2020-05-27Requester reported partial success
Show what each request asked for, as the requester wrote it

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

File your own records request

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

File an OPRA request about this department

See every request filed to Roselle Park Borough 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 Roselle Park Borough 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 Roselle Park Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Roselle Park Police Department is a municipal police agency in Union County. It named 9 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 16 investigations, a rate of 177.8 per 100 officers, above the Union County median of 137 and the 125.9 municipal median. A rate that high can reflect a heavier volume of misconduct or a department that puts more of its complaints on the record. Of the 16 investigations detailed for 2025, 3 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, with Demeanor and Improper Arrest next. No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Roselle Park received a B on the report card, at the 27th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers band, a medium-confidence grade.

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

Roselle Park Police Department reported 16 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 9 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Roselle Park Police Department have?

No major discipline records appear for Roselle Park 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 Roselle Park Police Department have?

Roselle Park Police Department reported 34 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 5.9% of them female. That is 2.35 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 Roselle Park Police Department?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 1 record naming Roselle Park Police Department, from 2020 through 2020. 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 Roselle Park Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 33 active Roselle Park Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $132,489. The median for the 233 TPAF-enrolled staff at ROSELLE PARK BORO BD OF ED is $87,176, a ratio of 1.52x. Against the Union County school-staff median the ratio is 1.48x. 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 2535. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset) and YourMoney Active Pension Members (TPAF subset, names removed). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Both snapshots as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. Figures are computed by this site from as-reported pensionable salaries; the row-by-row account of what entered each figure is published at /data/pay-comparison.json. ↩
  3. [3]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Fatal Encounters national dataset (2000-2021); collection ended December 2021. Retrieved 2026-07-10. https://fatalencounters.org/ ↩
  4. [4]Records-request activity for Roselle Park Borough. OPRAmachine (opramachine.com), an independent public-records platform. Publicly visible requests only. Point-in-time snapshot taken 2026-07-12 from a database export dated 2026-07-11. Not updated after that date; see opramachine.com for current activity. ↩
  5. [5]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Roselle Park PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  6. [6]New Jersey county boundaries. New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS). NJ_Counties_3857 (FeatureServer layer 0), https://services2.arcgis.com/XVOqAjTOJ5P6ngMu/arcgis/rest/services/NJ_Counties_3857/FeatureServer/0. 2020 boundary delineation. Retrieved 2026-07-27. Boundaries are generalized for display. This data set is not a survey document and must not be used as such. The polygons do not represent legal boundaries.
  7. [7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8615. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
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  11. [11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 488. 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 1511. 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 2018. 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 996. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  15. [15]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2535. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  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 Roselle Park PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  17. [17]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Roselle Park PD row for 2021. ↩
  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 Roselle Park PD row for 2022. ↩
  19. [19]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Roselle Park PD row for 2023. ↩
  20. [20]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Roselle Park PD row for 2024. ↩
  21. [21]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Roselle Park PD row for 2025. ↩
  22. [22]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8615. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  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. ↩