Department profile · Monmouth County

Shrewsbury Police Department

Reported as: Shrewsbury 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.

Officers named in IA cases, 2024

2^{^[1]}

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

IA investigations, 2024

2^{^[1]}

Incidents, 2024

2^{^[1]}

Major discipline records

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

15^{^[5]}

65 years reported

15 sworn officers in 2025, up from 4 in 1961 (+275%).
Year	sworn officers
1961	4
1962	5
1963	6
1964	7
1965	6
1966	6
1967	8
1968	8
1969	10
1970	10
1971	10
1972	10
1973	10
1974	11
1975	11
1976	12
1977	12
1978	12
1979	12
1980	12
1981	11
1982	11
1983	11
1984	11
1985	13
1986	13
1987	13
1988	13
1989	14
1990	15
1991	14
1992	14
1993	14
1994	15
1995	15
1996	15
1997	15
1998	15
1999	15
2000	14
2001	15
2002	15
2003	15
2004	15
2005	16
2006	16
2007	16
2008	16
2009	16
2010	16
2011	14
2012	16
2013	15
2014	16
2015	16
2016	16
2017	16
2018	17
2019	15
2020	16
2021	16
2022	16
2023	16
2024	17
2025	15

Civilian employees, 2025

1^{^[6]}

0.07 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

1^{^[7]}

6.7% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

3.6^{^[8]}

Municipal departments only

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

How Shrewsbury 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, 15-29 officers (n=166)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 15-29 officers
Range	Agencies
14–16	16
16–18	20
18–20	27
20–22	17
22–24	26
24–26	24
26–28	17
28–30	19

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Shrewsbury Police Department: 15 sworn officers: 5th percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=166).

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 16 active Shrewsbury Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$129,225^{^[3]}

16 active officers

Median local school staff

$72,038

SHREWSBURY BOROUGH BD OF ED, 57 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.79x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.49x

Median officer to Monmouth 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 "SHREWSBURY BOROUGH 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 Monmouth County pay page.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

In brief

Written by this site from the figures below.

Shrewsbury Police Department received 12 recorded line items of surplus military equipment in 2014 through the federal military surplus program, with a total recorded value of $244,976 in original Department of Defense acquisition cost rather than current or market value. Categories this site classes as tactical account for $105,328 of that total. By recorded value the leading categories were Hand tools, nonedged, nonpowered at $134,748, Guns, through 30mm at $79,276, and Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation at $20,239. These are transfers the department received, not a current inventory: 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

$244,976^{^[2]}

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$105,328^{^[2]}

7 of 12 line items classed tactical

Transfer window

2014^{^[2]}

Earliest to latest recorded ship date

Quantities received, by unit of issue: 43 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 Shrewsbury Police Department, by recorded value (original DoD acquisition cost, dollars)
Hand tools, nonedged, nonpowered	134,748 mundane
Guns, through 30mm	79,276 tactical
Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation	20,239 tactical
Optical instruments	5,607 tactical
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic components	3,566 mundane
Photographic equipment and accessories	1,335 mundane
Optical sighting and ranging equipment	206 tactical

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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 Shrewsbury Police Department, grouped tactical vs mundane
Category	Class	Line items	Quantity received	Recorded value (original cost)
Guns, through 30mmWeapons · FSC 1005	Tactical	1	1 items (Each)	$79,276
Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiationNight vision and thermal imaging · FSC 5855	Tactical	3	26 items (Each)	$20,239
Optical instrumentsWeapon optics and sights · FSC 6650	Tactical	2	2 items (Each)	$5,607
Optical sighting and ranging equipmentWeapon optics and sights · FSC 1240	Tactical	1	1 items (Each)	$206
Hand tools, nonedged, nonpoweredTools and maintenance · FSC 5120	Mundane	2	6 items (Each)	$134,748
Miscellaneous electrical and electronic componentsCommunications and electronics · FSC 5999	Mundane	1	1 items (Each)	$3,566
Photographic equipment and accessoriesCameras and photography · FSC 6760	Mundane	2	6 items (Each)	$1,335

Every recorded transfer

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1033 program transfers recorded for Shrewsbury Police Department, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency
Item	Category	Qty	Recorded valueOriginal DoD cost	Ship date	DEMIL
LENS,CAMERA,GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHICNSN 6760-01-505-6448Shipped 2014-11-12 · DEMIL Q	Photographic equipment and accessories Mundane	1 Each	$222	2014-11-12	Q
LENS,CAMERA,GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHICNSN 6760-01-505-6448Shipped 2014-11-12 · DEMIL Q	Photographic equipment and accessories Mundane	5 Each	$1,112	2014-11-12	Q
LIDNSN 5855-01-493-9486Shipped 2014-10-27 · DEMIL Q	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	11 Each	$14,910	2014-10-27	Q
LIDNSN 5855-01-493-9486Shipped 2014-10-22 · DEMIL Q	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	1 Each	$1,355	2014-10-22	Q
FACEMASKNSN 5855-01-246-6804Shipped 2014-10-22 · DEMIL Q	Night vision equipment, emitted and reflected radiation Tactical	14 Each	$3,974	2014-10-22	Q
SOCKET SET,SOCKET WRENCHNSN 5120-01-180-2829Shipped 2014-10-15 · DEMIL Q	Hand tools, nonedged, nonpowered Mundane	4 Each	$133,920	2014-10-15	Q
SOCKET SET,SOCKET WRENCHNSN 5120-01-180-2828Shipped 2014-10-15 · DEMIL Q	Hand tools, nonedged, nonpowered Mundane	2 Each	$828	2014-10-15	Q
LOCK,GUN SAFETYNSN 1005-01-565-9127Shipped 2014-09-30 · DEMIL Q	Guns, through 30mm Tactical	1 Each	$79,276	2014-09-30	Q
TELESCOPE,STRAIGHTNSN 6650-01-375-8207Shipped 2014-08-21 · DEMIL D	Optical instruments Tactical	1 Each	$2,804	2014-08-21	D
MOUNT,TELESCOPENSN 1240-01-561-9236Shipped 2014-08-20 · DEMIL D	Optical sighting and ranging equipment Tactical	1 Each	$206	2014-08-20	D
PARTS KIT,ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENTNSN 5999-01-512-0859Shipped 2014-08-20 · DEMIL D	Miscellaneous electrical and electronic components Mundane	1 Each	$3,566	2014-08-20	D
TELESCOPE,STRAIGHTNSN 6650-01-375-8207Shipped 2014-08-15 · DEMIL D	Optical instruments Tactical	1 Each	$2,804	2014-08-15	D

12 of 12 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.

Shrewsbury Police Department received $7,022 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 93rd percentile among municipal police agencies of similar size (15-29 officers, n=167).

Peer group: Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=167)

Tactical 1033 value per sworn officer: Municipal police, 15-29 officers
Range	Agencies
0–5000	148
5000–10000	12
10000–15000	4
15000–20000	1
20000–25000	0
25000–30000	1

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Shrewsbury Police Department: 7,022 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 93rd percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=167).

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 Shrewsbury Police Department, by year
Category	counts
2021	4
2022	4
2024	2

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Incidents

2 in 2024

Internal affairs incidents reported by Shrewsbury Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	4
2022	4
2024	2

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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 · 3 reported years

Share of internal affairs investigations sustained by Shrewsbury Police Department, by year
Year	share of total
2021	0
2022	100
2024	100

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Statewide, 19.5 percent of investigations reported a sustained complaint in 2025. How dispositions break down statewide.

Complaint mix, 2024

Most serious allegation per investigation, as categorized by the reporting agency. Officer-level rows list 2 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Shrewsbury Police Department, 2024
Improper Search	1
Demeanor	1

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AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Improper Search · Demeanor

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Shrewsbury Police Department, 2024
Sustained	2

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Allegations by year, 2021 to 2024

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

6 of 10

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Shrewsbury Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	4
2022	2
2023	not reported
2024	0

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Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency

1 of 10

Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency allegations reported by Shrewsbury Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	1
2023	not reported
2024	0

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Demeanor

1 of 10

Demeanor allegations reported by Shrewsbury Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	0
2023	not reported
2024	1

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False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal)

1 of 10

False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal) allegations reported by Shrewsbury Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	1
2023	not reported
2024	0

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Improper Search

1 of 10

Improper Search allegations reported by Shrewsbury Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	0
2023	not reported
2024	1

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Report card

Grade C: Middle fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing: 50th percentile of 171 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 Shrewsbury Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=171)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 15-29 officers
Range	Agencies
0–50	120
50–100	24
100–150	15
150–200	7
200–250	3
250–300	2

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Shrewsbury Police Department: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 25th percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=171).

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%

90th percentileof 171 peers

144.4 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%

25th percentileof 171 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%

21st percentileof 171 peers

1.70 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.^[16] How each metric is defined.

This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
Metric	Value	Rank
Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30	$7,022	40th of 163 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year	3.60	78th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-31	1.49x	148th of 415 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.

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

How many internal affairs investigations did Shrewsbury Police Department report in 2024?

Shrewsbury Police Department reported 2 internal affairs investigations in 2024, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 2 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Shrewsbury Police Department have?

No major discipline records appear for Shrewsbury 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 Shrewsbury Police Department have?

Shrewsbury Police Department reported 15 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 6.7% of them female. That is 3.6 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 Shrewsbury Police Department received through the 1033 program?

Shrewsbury Police Department received 12 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program in 2014, with a total recorded value of $244,976 (original DoD acquisition cost, not current or market value). The largest category by recorded value was: Hand tools, nonedged, nonpowered. 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 Shrewsbury Police Department received?

The surplus equipment recorded for Shrewsbury Police Department under the 1033 program totals $244,976 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $105,328 is in categories this site classes as tactical (7 of 12 line items). These are original-cost figures at the time of transfer, not current or market value.

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

The median pensionable salary for the 16 active Shrewsbury Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $129,225. The median for the 57 TPAF-enrolled staff at SHREWSBURY BOROUGH BD OF ED is $72,038, a ratio of 1.79x. Against the Monmouth County school-staff median the ratio is 1.49x. 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]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 837. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[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]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. ↩
[4]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.
[5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8458. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[6]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8458. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8458. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[8]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8458. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[9]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 335. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1351. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 837. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[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 Shrewsbury PD row for 2024; row 1 is the header. ↩
[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 Shrewsbury PD row for 2021. ↩
[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 Shrewsbury PD row for 2022. ↩
[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 Shrewsbury PD row for 2024. ↩
[16]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. ↩