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Scotch Plains Police Department

Reported as: Scotch Plains PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

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

Scotch Plains Police Department is municipal police in Union County. It named 23 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 45 investigations, a rate of 195.7 per 100 officers that ran far above the Union County median of 137 and the 125.9 municipal median. A rate that far out can mean a heavier volume of misconduct or a department that documents complaints many of its peers would not. Of the 45 investigations detailed for 2025, 11 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, with Demeanor and Attendance Issues next.

Four major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023 and 2024, including one termination. Scotch Plains received an F on the report card, at the 85th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers band, a high-confidence grade.

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

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

23[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

45[1]

Incidents, 2025

34[1]

Major discipline records

4

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

47[7]

66 years reported

47 sworn officers in 2025, up from 22 in 1960 (+114%).
Yearsworn officers
196022
196123
196225
196325
196426
196524
196625
196728
196828
196931
197033
197140
197236
197338
197438
197536
197638
197736
197839
197942
198040
198140
198240
198341
198441
198542
198642
198742
198842
198942
199043
199143
199243
199341
199440
199545
199646
199746
199846
199946
200046
200146
200246
200346
200443
200544
200644
200745
200846
200946
201045
201145
201244
201344
201442
201545
201645
201747
201849
201949
202049
202149
202249
202347
202447
202547

Civilian employees, 2025

3[8]

0.06 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

5[9]

10.6% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

1.86[10]

Municipal departments only

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

How Scotch Plains 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

Scotch Plains Police Department: 47 sworn officers: 79th 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 Scotch Plains Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$131,431[3]

48 active officers

Median school staff

$89,365

Union County, all TPAF members

Against the county

1.47x

Median officer to Union 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 Union County pay page.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

In brief

Written by this site from the figures below.

Scotch Plains Police Department received two recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the federal surplus-equipment program between 2014 and 2015. The recorded value totals $62,073 at original Department of Defense acquisition cost rather than current or market value, and most of it sits outside the tactical classes this site tracks: Headsets, handsets, microphones and speakers accounted for $56,988, while Optical sighting and ranging equipment, the one tactical line item, accounted for $5,085. Both entries are transfers received, not a current inventory, and non-controlled items may be disposed of after one year. Receiving surplus equipment through the program is not misconduct, and this federal data is separate in origin from the Attorney General discipline records on this page.

Surplus military equipment transferred to this agency under the Defense Department's 1033 program, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency.

Total recorded value

$62,073[2]

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$5,085[2]

1 of 2 line items classed tactical

Transfer window

2014-2015[2]

Earliest to latest recorded ship date

Quantities received, by unit of issue: 24 items (Each). Units of issue differ (an item and a kit are not the same thing), so no single combined item count exists.

Top categories by recorded value

Top 1033 equipment categories received by Scotch Plains Police Department, by recorded value (original DoD acquisition cost, dollars)
Headsets, handsets, microphones and speakers56,988 mundane
Optical sighting and ranging equipment5,085 tactical

Categories received: tactical vs mundane

Each category is classed tactical or mundane by this site's published classification of its Federal Supply Class. Much of what moves through the program is mundane surplus (tools, office and medical equipment); the tactical rows are what the Militarization Index below measures.

1033 equipment categories received by Scotch Plains Police Department, grouped tactical vs mundane
CategoryClassLine itemsQuantity receivedRecorded value (original cost)
Optical sighting and ranging equipmentWeapon optics and sights · FSC 1240Tactical115 items (Each)$5,085
Headsets, handsets, microphones and speakersCommunications and electronics · FSC 5965Mundane19 items (Each)$56,988

Every recorded transfer

Equipment class

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1033 program transfers recorded for Scotch Plains Police Department, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency
ItemCategoryQtyRecorded valueOriginal DoD cost
RADIO,PORTABLENSN 5965-01-520-3847Shipped 2015-06-22 · DEMIL QHeadsets, handsets, microphones and speakers Mundane9 Each$56,988
SIGHT,REFLEXNSN 1240-01-411-1265Shipped 2014-09-09 · DEMIL QOptical sighting and ranging equipment Tactical15 Each$5,085

2 of 2 recorded transfers shown. Quantities are per unit of issue and are never summed across units. DEMIL code A: non-controlled property, may be disposed of after one year (so a listed item is not necessarily still held). Codes such as C, D, F, and Q: controlled property with federal return or demilitarization requirements.

AnalysisMilitarization Index: computed by this site, not an official statistic.

Scotch Plains Police Department received $108 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 70th percentile among municipal police agencies of similar size (30-59 officers, n=112).

Peer group: Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=112)

Tactical 1033 value per sworn officer: Municipal police, 30-59 officers
RangeAgencies
0–5000102
5000–100004
10000–150001
15000–200003
20000–250001

Scotch Plains Police Department: 108 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 70th percentile among Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=112).

A higher index is not automatically worse. It divides cumulative transfers over the covered window by current staffing, so it measures how intensively an agency has participated in the program, not what it holds today. See the methodology.

Statewide totals, per-county rollups, and the top categories across all of New Jersey are on the 1033 program overview.

Internal affairs investigations by year

counts

Internal affairs investigations reported by Scotch Plains Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202137
202238
202329
202443
202545

Incidents

34 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Scotch Plains Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202133
202233
202327
202438
202534

Officers on IA rows

41 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Scotch Plains Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202442
202541
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 Scotch Plains Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202242.105
202320.69
202444.186
202524.444

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 41 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Scotch Plains Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation19
Demeanor6
Attendance Issues5
Differential Treatment4
Neglect of Duty4
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency2
Insubordination/Disobeying An Order2
False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal)2
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Attendance Issues · Differential Treatment · Neglect of Duty · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency · Insubordination/Disobeying An Order · False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal)

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Scotch Plains Police Department, 2025
not provided15
Unfounded12
Sustained11
Exonerated5
Not Sustained2

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

58 of 192

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Scotch Plains Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202127
202210
20230
20242
202519

not provided

51 of 192

not provided allegations reported by Scotch Plains Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20220
202319
202431
20250

Demeanor

34 of 192

Demeanor allegations reported by Scotch Plains Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20216
202210
20235
20247
20256

Differential Treatment

14 of 192

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Scotch Plains Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20223
20233
20242
20254

Other (13 categories)

35 of 192

Other (13 categories) allegations reported by Scotch Plains Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
202215
20232
20241
202516

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Scotch Plains Police Department195.7
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.

45 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 47 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[22] = 95.7 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 F: Highest fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
85th percentile of 110 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Scotch Plains 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

Scotch Plains Police Department: 44.643 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 60th 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%

99th percentileof 110 peers

172.2 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%

60th percentileof 110 peers

44.6 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%

15th percentileof 110 peers

1.74 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 officers2025195.729th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20254549th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20253449th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-2025458th of 282 municipal police
Terminations2020-2025130th of 111 municipal police
Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30$108133rd of 163 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year1.86353rd of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.47x160th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present20193rd of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20220
20231
20243
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Scotch Plains Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2024Rolando RodriguezPatrolmanSuspended 5 days[24]
2024Donte JoynerPatrolmanSuspended 5 days[25]
2024Donte JoynerPatrolmanTerminatedSeparated while IA pending[26]
2023Zachary VonLangenPatrolmanSuspended 40 days[27]

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.[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 Scotch Plains Township, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 20 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 149 filed to Scotch Plains Township are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

20[4]

Identified by subject line, of 169 filed to Scotch Plains Township

Most recent request

November 2025[4]

First recorded May 2020

Awaiting a response

12[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 Scotch Plains Township (requests)
Awaiting agency response12
Requester reported success3
Request refused2
Requester reported partial success1
Agency said records not held1
Delivery error1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Scotch Plains 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. 2025-11-30Requester reported partial success
  2. 2025-09-15Awaiting agency response
  3. 2024-10-28Requester reported success
  4. 2024-05-02Requester reported success
  5. 2024-04-01Awaiting agency response
  6. 2024-01-28Awaiting agency response
  7. 2024-01-27Awaiting agency response
  8. 2023-10-29Request refused
  9. 2023-10-18Awaiting agency response
  10. 2023-10-18Request refused
  11. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  12. 2023-08-31Awaiting 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 Scotch Plains 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 Scotch Plains 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 Scotch Plains Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Scotch Plains Police Department is municipal police in Union County. It named 23 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 45 investigations, a rate of 195.7 per 100 officers that ran far above the Union County median of 137 and the 125.9 municipal median. A rate that far out can mean a heavier volume of misconduct or a department that documents complaints many of its peers would not. Of the 45 investigations detailed for 2025, 11 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, with Demeanor and Attendance Issues next. Four major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023 and 2024, including one termination. Scotch Plains received an F on the report card, at the 85th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers band, a high-confidence grade.

How many internal affairs investigations did Scotch Plains Police Department report in 2025?

Scotch Plains Police Department reported 45 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 23 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Scotch Plains Police Department have?

Scotch Plains Police Department has 4 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 1 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How many officers does Scotch Plains Police Department have?

Scotch Plains Police Department reported 47 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 10.6% of them female. That is 1.86 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 military surplus equipment has Scotch Plains Police Department received through the 1033 program?

Scotch Plains Police Department received 2 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program between 2014 and 2015, with a total recorded value of $62,073 (original DoD acquisition cost, not current or market value). The largest category by recorded value was: Headsets, handsets, microphones and speakers. Transfers are as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency as of 2026-06-30; equipment acquired through the program is not necessarily still held.

What is the total recorded value of the 1033 equipment Scotch Plains Police Department received?

The surplus equipment recorded for Scotch Plains Police Department under the 1033 program totals $62,073 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $5,085 is in categories this site classes as tactical (1 of 2 line items). These are original-cost figures at the time of transfer, not current or market value.

What does Scotch Plains Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 48 active Scotch Plains Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $131,431. Against the Union County school-staff median the ratio is 1.47x. 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 2537. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]DoD 1033 Program transfers (LESO Public Information), New Jersey sheet. Defense Logistics Agency (U.S. Department of Defense). LESO Public Information: DISP_AllStatesAndTerritories, quarterly file as of 2026-06-30; recorded ship dates 1993-2026. Retrieved 2026-07-10. https://www.dla.mil/Disposition-Services/Offers/Law-Enforcement/Public-Information/ ↩
  3. [3]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. ↩
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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 Scotch Plains 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. ↩
  24. [24]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1452. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
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