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Salem County Prosecutor's Office

Reported as: Salem Co Prosecutors OfficeCounty prosecutor

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

Salem County Prosecutor's Office is a county prosecutor agency in Salem County. It named 4 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 4 investigations, a rate of 100 per 100 officers, level with the county median of 100 and below the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies. A rate at or under the medians can reflect less misconduct or an office that documents fewer of its complaints. None of the 4 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the only allegation category recorded.

One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. Salem Co Prosecutors Office received a D on the report card, at the 64th percentile among 21 peers in the all prosecutor agencies 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

4[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

4[1]

Incidents, 2025

3[1]

Major discipline records

1

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

19[4]

50 years reported

19 sworn officers in 2025, up from 4 in 1976 (+375%).
Yearsworn officers
19764
19775
19785
19795
19806
19816
19828
19838
198410
198511
19869
19877
198817
198915
199016
199111
199216
199310
199410
199510
199610
199711
199810
199914
200015
200115
200217
200315
200417
200515
200617
200717
200820
200920
201021
201119
201217
201318
201420
201521
201620
201721
201821
201921
202021
202121
202220
202321
202421
202519

Civilian employees, 2025

37[5]

1.95 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

3[6]

15.8% of sworn officers

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

How Salem County Prosecutor's Office's sworn staffing compares with its real peer group (same agency type, similar size band), not an assumed bell curve.

Peer group: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20)

Sworn officers: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies
RangeAgencies
0–508
50–1009
100–1503

Salem County Prosecutor's Office: 19 sworn officers: 10th percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20).

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.

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 Salem County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Categorycounts
20214
20228
20235
20244
20254

Incidents

3 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Salem County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20214
20228
20233
20244
20253

Officers on IA rows

4 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Salem County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
20244
20254
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 Salem County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202262.5
202360
202450
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 4 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Salem County Prosecutor's Office, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation4
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Salem County Prosecutor's Office, 2025
Not Sustained2
Exonerated1
not provided1

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 25

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Salem County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20226
20231
20243
20254

BWC/MVR Violation

3 of 25

BWC/MVR Violation allegations reported by Salem County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20233
20240
20250

Demeanor

3 of 25

Demeanor allegations reported by Salem County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20221
20230
20240
20250

Domestic violence (Criminal)

2 of 25

Domestic violence (Criminal) allegations reported by Salem County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20230
20241
20250

not provided

1 of 25

not provided allegations reported by Salem County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20231
20240
20250

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Salem County Prosecutor's Office100.0
County median, county prosecutor (1)100.0
NJ median, county prosecutor (21)107.5

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.

4 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 19 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[18] = 21.1 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 D: Second-highest fifth

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
64th percentile of 21 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 Salem County Prosecutor's Office's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=21)

Discipline severity: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies
RangeAgencies
0–10016
100–2002
200–3002
300–4001

Salem County Prosecutor's Office: 47.619 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 60th percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=21).

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%

67th percentileof 21 peers

120.0 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%

60th percentileof 21 peers

47.6 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%

17th percentileof 21 peers

1.50 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.[19] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025100.012th of 21 county prosecutor
IA investigations2025414th of 21 county prosecutor
IA incidents2025316th of 21 county prosecutor
Major discipline2020-2025111th of 16 county prosecutor

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20221
20230
20240
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Salem County Prosecutor's Office, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2022David JonesInvestigatorSuspended 66 days[20]

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

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 Salem County Prosecutor's Office's internal affairs and discipline record?

Salem County Prosecutor's Office is a county prosecutor agency in Salem County. It named 4 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 4 investigations, a rate of 100 per 100 officers, level with the county median of 100 and below the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies. A rate at or under the medians can reflect less misconduct or an office that documents fewer of its complaints. None of the 4 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the only allegation category recorded. One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. Salem Co Prosecutors Office received a D on the report card, at the 64th percentile among 21 peers in the all prosecutor agencies band, a medium-confidence grade.

How many internal affairs investigations did Salem County Prosecutor's Office report in 2025?

Salem County Prosecutor's Office reported 4 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 4 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Salem County Prosecutor's Office have?

Salem County Prosecutor's Office has 1 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 Salem County Prosecutor's Office have?

Salem County Prosecutor's Office reported 19 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 15.8% 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.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2469. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Salem Co Prosecutors Office row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  3. [3]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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  8. [8]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1451. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
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  11. [11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2469. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  12. [12]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 Salem Co Prosecutors Office row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  13. [13]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 Salem Co Prosecutors Office row for 2021. ↩
  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 Salem Co Prosecutors Office row for 2022. ↩
  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 Salem Co Prosecutors Office row for 2023. ↩
  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 Salem Co Prosecutors Office row for 2024. ↩
  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 Salem Co Prosecutors Office row for 2025. ↩
  18. [18]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8565. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  19. [19]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. ↩
  20. [20]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2292. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩