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Weehawken Police Department

Reported as: Weehawken PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

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

Weehawken Police Department reported 48 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 33 officers, a rate of 145.5 per 100 officers that topped the Hudson County median of 138.9 and the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Whether that reflects heavier misconduct or a fuller intake of complaints cannot be read from the counts alone. Seven of the 48 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, followed by Demeanor and Excessive Force.

Four major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022 and 2024, including one termination. Weehawken PD received a C on the report card, at the 48th percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, 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

33[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

48[1]

Incidents, 2025

28[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

61[7]

66 years reported

61 sworn officers in 2025, up from 38 in 1960 (+61%).
Yearsworn officers
196038
196137
196240
196341
196440
196543
196644
196743
196843
196940
197042
197141
197243
197341
197445
197543
197643
197743
197843
197943
198046
198142
198237
198340
198439
198539
198646
198745
198844
198943
199045
199147
199245
199346
199444
199545
199645
199750
199854
199956
200051
200153
200253
200362
200460
200558
200658
200758
200856
200957
201051
201148
201244
201346
201447
201551
201648
201753
201852
201954
202055
202161
202260
202362
202456
202561

Civilian employees, 2025

19[8]

0.31 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

3[9]

4.9% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

3.38[10]

Municipal departments only

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

How Weehawken 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, 60+ officers (n=92)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 60+ officers
RangeAgencies
0–20084
200–4005
400–6001
600–8001
800–10000
1000–12001

Weehawken Police Department: 61 sworn officers: 3rd percentile among Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=92).

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 59 active Weehawken Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$122,115[2]

59 active officers

Median local school staff

$73,714

WEEHAWKEN TWP BD OF ED, 145 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.66x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.31x

Median officer to Hudson 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 "WEEHAWKEN TWP 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 Hudson 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 Weehawken Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202156
202232
202370
202455
202548

Incidents

28 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Weehawken Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202132
202219
202342
202434
202528

Officers on IA rows

48 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Weehawken Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202454
202548
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 Weehawken Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202212.5
202314.286
202432.727
202514.583

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 48 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Weehawken Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation17
not provided12
Demeanor10
Excessive Force2
Differential Treatment2
Attendance Issues1
Improper Search1
Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Excessive Force · Differential Treatment · Attendance Issues · Improper Search · Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Weehawken Police Department, 2025
Exonerated23
Sustained8
Not Sustained6
Unfounded5
not provided5
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

130 of 261

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Weehawken Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202132
202221
202325
202435
202517

Demeanor

67 of 261

Demeanor allegations reported by Weehawken Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202118
20229
202320
202410
202510

not provided

20 of 261

not provided allegations reported by Weehawken Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20238
20240
202512

Differential Treatment

12 of 261

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Weehawken Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20220
20236
20242
20252

Other (11 categories)

32 of 261

Other (11 categories) allegations reported by Weehawken Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20214
20222
202311
20248
20257
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Weehawken Police Department145.5
County median, municipal police (13)138.9
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.

48 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 61 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[22] = 78.7 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 C: Middle fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
48th percentile of 93 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Weehawken Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=93)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 60+ officers
RangeAgencies
0–5066
50–10025
100–1501
150–2001

Weehawken Police Department: 29.24 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 42nd percentile among Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=93).

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%

77th percentileof 93 peers

151.7 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%

42nd percentileof 93 peers

29.2 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%

8th percentileof 93 peers

1.57 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 officers2025145.5130th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20254844th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20252863rd of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-2025458th of 282 municipal police
Terminations2020-2025130th of 111 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year3.3892nd of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.31x250th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present3657th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20222
20230
20242
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Weehawken Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2024Joshua HernandezOfficerSuspended 10 days[24]
2024Vicky RemacheOfficerSuspended 79 days[25]
2022Esteban RodriguezPatrolmanTerminated[26]
2022Joshua HernandezPatrolmanSuspended 9 days[27]

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

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 Weehawken Police Department, from 2003. The as-recorded force label on that record is Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument. Fatal Encounters was an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that documented deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, medical emergencies, suicides in police presence, and acts by third parties. A record is not a finding of fault, and it does not say police caused the death. Collection ended in December 2021, so the dataset stops there.

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 Weehawken 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.

  • Jose Luis Ives Jr.

    July 16, 2003 · Union City · Highest level of force as recorded: Beaten/Bludgeoned with instrument

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 Weehawken Township, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 36 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 180 filed to Weehawken Township are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

36[4]

Identified by subject line, of 216 filed to Weehawken Township

Most recent request

April 2026[4]

First recorded April 2020

Awaiting a response

20[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 Weehawken Township (requests)
Awaiting agency response20
Requester reported success13
Agency said records not held2
Under internal review1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Weehawken 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. 2026-04-23Awaiting agency response
  2. 2026-04-20Under internal review
  3. 2026-03-17Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-11-18Awaiting agency response
  5. 2025-10-02Agency said records not held
  6. 2025-09-15Awaiting agency response
  7. 2025-08-16Awaiting agency response
  8. 2025-05-30Awaiting agency response
  9. 2025-05-14Awaiting agency response
  10. 2025-05-07Awaiting agency response
  11. 2025-02-26Awaiting agency response
  12. 2024-12-13Awaiting 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 Weehawken 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 Weehawken 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 Weehawken Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Weehawken Police Department reported 48 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 33 officers, a rate of 145.5 per 100 officers that topped the Hudson County median of 138.9 and the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Whether that reflects heavier misconduct or a fuller intake of complaints cannot be read from the counts alone. Seven of the 48 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, followed by Demeanor and Excessive Force. Four major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022 and 2024, including one termination. Weehawken PD received a C on the report card, at the 48th percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Weehawken Police Department reported 48 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 33 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Weehawken Police Department have?

Weehawken 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 Weehawken Police Department have?

Weehawken Police Department reported 61 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 4.9% of them female. That is 3.38 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 Weehawken Police Department?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 1 record naming Weehawken Police Department, from 2003 through 2003. 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 Weehawken Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 59 active Weehawken Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $122,115. The median for the 145 TPAF-enrolled staff at WEEHAWKEN TWP BD OF ED is $73,714, a ratio of 1.66x. Against the Hudson County school-staff median the ratio is 1.31x. 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 2269. 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/
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