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Washington Township Police Department

Reported as: Washington Twp 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

Washington Township Police Department in Morris County reported seven internal affairs investigations in 2025, naming six officers. Its rate of 116.7 per 100 officers matched the Morris County median of 116.7 and fell below the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Two of the seven investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation, Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise and Other Departmental Rule Violation were the leading allegation categories, and allegations are not findings.

No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Washington Twp PD received a B on the report card, at the 22nd percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, 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

6[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

7[1]

Incidents, 2025

4[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

32[6]

58 years reported

32 sworn officers in 2025, up from 6 in 1968 (+433%).
Yearsworn officers
19686
19697
19708
19718
19728
197310
197412
197513
197614
197715
197816
197916
198016
198115
198218
198318
198417
198520
198621
198723
198825
198926
199027
199127
199226
199327
199428
199529
199629
199730
199829
199928
200030
200130
200232
200333
200434
200534
200635
200733
200831
200931
201028
201128
201227
201327
201431
201528
201630
201729
201829
201929
202029
202132
202232
202331
202432
202532

Civilian employees, 2025

3[7]

0.09 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

1[8]

3.1% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

1.74[9]

Municipal departments only

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

How Washington Township 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

Washington Township Police Department: 32 sworn officers: 14th 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 32 active Washington Township Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$136,054[2]

32 active officers

Median school staff

$88,330

Morris County, all TPAF members

Against the county

1.54x

Median officer to Morris 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 Morris 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 Washington Township Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
20217
202213
202319
202411
20257

Incidents

4 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Washington Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20215
202210
202310
20244
20254

Officers on IA rows

7 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Washington Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202411
20257
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 Washington Township Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202215.385
202315.789
20240
202528.571

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 7 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Washington Township Police Department, 2025
Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation2
Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise2
Other Departmental Rule Violation2
Preventable MV Accident1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation · Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise · Other Departmental Rule Violation · Preventable MV Accident

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Washington Township Police Department, 2025
not provided5
Sustained2

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Excessive Force

14 of 57

Excessive Force allegations reported by Washington Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20213
20223
20234
20244
20250

Other Departmental Rule Violation

11 of 57

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Washington Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20214
20223
20232
20240
20252

Other Criminal Violation

10 of 57

Other Criminal Violation allegations reported by Washington Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20236
20244
20250

not provided

4 of 57

not provided allegations reported by Washington Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20222
20232
20240
20250

Other (9 categories)

18 of 57

Other (9 categories) allegations reported by Washington Township Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20225
20235
20243
20255

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Washington Township Police Department116.7
County median, municipal police (35)116.7
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.

7 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 32 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[21] = 21.9 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
22nd 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 Washington Township 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

Washington Township 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%

33rd percentileof 110 peers

118.5 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%

97th percentileof 110 peers

2.89 mean severity tier (1 low - 4 critical)

Mean severity tier of IA allegations across 2021-2025, using the published tier map; unknown values excluded.

What this grade can and can't tell you

  • The underlying data is self-reported by agencies, one yearly snapshot at a time.
  • Allegations are not findings; many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
  • There is no arrest or call-volume denominator in this data, so nothing here is a per-capita misconduct rate. A genuinely independent staffing-based rate, sourced from the FBI rather than this grade's own data, appears above when available. It is a different measurement, not a more accurate version of the grade.
  • A higher internal affairs volume is ambiguous: it can indicate more misconduct, or a more robust oversight and reporting culture. The grade weighs it anyway, because volume is what the record offers; that choice is published, not hidden.
  • The grade is one lens. The records it reads are on this page above.

Where this agency ranks

AnalysisRankings compare agencies of the same type only, on figures as reported. A high rank is reported volume, not a verdict.[22] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025116.7283rd of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20257267th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20254303rd of 445 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year1.74387th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.54x120th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present14303rd 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.

Public records requests

Records requests about this department filed through OPRAmachine, an independent site that files Open Public Records Act requests in public and publishes the responses.[3] This is a third-party, user-generated source, separate in origin from the Attorney General records elsewhere on this page.

Current as of 12 July 2026. These figures are a point-in-time snapshot and do not update: requests filed to OPRAmachine after that date do not appear here. For live activity, see this body on OPRAmachine.

Police-related requests

14[3]

Every request filed to this department

Most recent request

January 2026[3]

First recorded November 2017

Awaiting a response

4[3]

Requests with no response recorded yet

What happened to those requests

Statuses as recorded on OPRAmachine. They are set by the person who filed the request when they classify what came back, not by the agency and not by any court. They describe the fate of a records request and nothing else.

Recorded outcomes of records requests to Washington Township Police Department (requests)
Awaiting agency response4
Requester reported success4
Requester reported partial success2
Delivery error2
Agency said records not held1
Request refused1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent requests to Washington Township Police Department, by date and recorded status. Each was written by a member of the public. A request is a question somebody asked. It is not a finding, not an allegation this site makes, and not evidence that anything happened.

  1. 2026-01-26Requester reported partial success
  2. 2026-01-24Agency said records not held
  3. 2026-01-07Requester reported partial success
  4. 2025-10-21Awaiting agency response
  5. 2025-09-10Awaiting agency response
  6. 2025-09-10Awaiting agency response
  7. 2025-08-01Awaiting agency response
  8. 2025-05-27Requester reported success
  9. 2025-02-22Request refused
  10. 2024-05-08Delivery error
  11. 2024-03-04Delivery error
  12. 2022-10-06Requester reported success
Show what each request asked for, as the requester wrote it

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

File your own records request

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

File an OPRA request about this department

See every request filed to Washington Township Police Department on OPRAmachine.

What this section can and can't tell you

  • A request is not a finding. Every entry records what a member of the public asked for. None of it establishes that an agency did anything, and none of it is an allegation this site is making.
  • Statuses come from the requester, not the agency. On OPRAmachine the person who filed the request classifies the response they got, so “successful” means they said they got what they asked for. It is not the agency's word and not an adjudication.
  • Request volume is not a measure of misconduct. A long list usually reflects public interest, local journalism, or one determined requester. A short list usually means few people have asked.
  • This covers OPRAmachine only. Most OPRA requests in New Jersey are filed directly with agencies and never appear here, so this is a floor, not a total.
  • It is frozen at 12 July 2026. The figures come from a snapshot of OPRAmachine taken on that date and nothing refreshes them, so anything filed since is missing. Treat every number here as a lower bound that is only getting further out of date.

The match between this OPRAmachine body and this department is this site's inference, not a certified mapping. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Washington Township Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Washington Township Police Department in Morris County reported seven internal affairs investigations in 2025, naming six officers. Its rate of 116.7 per 100 officers matched the Morris County median of 116.7 and fell below the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Two of the seven investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation, Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise and Other Departmental Rule Violation were the leading allegation categories, and allegations are not findings. No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Washington Twp PD received a B on the report card, at the 22nd percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, a medium-confidence grade.

How many internal affairs investigations did Washington Township Police Department report in 2025?

Washington Township Police Department reported 7 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 6 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Washington Township Police Department have?

No major discipline records appear for Washington Township 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 Washington Township Police Department have?

Washington Township Police Department reported 32 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 3.1% of them female. That is 1.74 sworn officers per 1,000 residents. This is a different measurement from the "officers named in IA cases" figure elsewhere on this page, which counts distinct officers in that year's internal affairs investigations, not total staffing.

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

The median pensionable salary for the 32 active Washington Township Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $136,054. Against the Morris County school-staff median the ratio is 1.54x. 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 2410. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset) and YourMoney Active Pension Members (TPAF subset, names removed). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Both snapshots as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. Figures are computed by this site from as-reported pensionable salaries; the row-by-row account of what entered each figure is published at /data/pay-comparison.json. ↩
  3. [3]Records-request activity for Washington Township Police Department. OPRAmachine (opramachine.com), an independent public-records platform. Publicly visible requests only. Point-in-time snapshot taken 2026-07-12 from a database export dated 2026-07-11. Not updated after that date; see opramachine.com for current activity. ↩
  4. [4]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Washington Twp PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  5. [5]New Jersey county boundaries. New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS). NJ_Counties_3857 (FeatureServer layer 0), https://services2.arcgis.com/XVOqAjTOJ5P6ngMu/arcgis/rest/services/NJ_Counties_3857/FeatureServer/0. 2020 boundary delineation. Retrieved 2026-07-27. Boundaries are generalized for display. This data set is not a survey document and must not be used as such. The polygons do not represent legal boundaries.
  6. [6]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8502. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
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  10. [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 375. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  11. [11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1394. 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 1899. 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 878. 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 2410. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  15. [15]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Washington Twp PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  16. [16]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Washington Twp PD row for 2021. ↩
  17. [17]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Washington Twp PD row for 2022. ↩
  18. [18]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Washington Twp PD row for 2023. ↩
  19. [19]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Washington Twp PD row for 2024. ↩
  20. [20]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Washington Twp PD row for 2025. ↩
  21. [21]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8502. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  22. [22]Ranks computed by this site over the Attorney General internal affairs agency totals and major discipline releases, within agency type. Each ranking page lists every agency and its source rows. ↩