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West Orange Police Department

Reported as: West Orange PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

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

West Orange Police Department reported 62 internal affairs investigations in 2025, naming 44 officers. Its rate of 140.9 per 100 officers fell under the Essex County median of 158.6 while running above the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Of the 62 investigations detailed for 2025, 12 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation accounted for the largest share of allegation categories, with Demeanor and Differential Treatment behind it.

Three major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2020, 2023 and 2024. Terminations are not reported in those records. West Orange PD received a B on the report card, at the 22nd 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

44[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

62[1]

Incidents, 2025

44[1]

Major discipline records

3

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

95[6]

65 years reported

95 sworn officers in 2025, up from 76 in 1960 (+25%).
Yearsworn officers
196076
196177
196279
196381
1964not reported
196585
196690
196789
196887
1969100
197096
197197
197295
197395
1974105
1975100
197694
197795
197895
197992
198099
1981100
198294
1983100
198487
198592
198691
198789
198892
198992
199095
199194
199295
199398
1994100
199598
1996100
1997104
1998102
1999103
2000106
2001106
2002104
2003109
2004112
2005115
2006111
2007119
2008118
2009119
2010121
201195
201292
201390
201494
201597
201697
201797
201896
201995
202098
202196
202296
202395
202495
202595

Civilian employees, 2025

14[7]

0.15 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

11[8]

11.6% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

1.93[9]

Municipal departments only

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

How West Orange 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

West Orange Police Department: 95 sworn officers: 53rd 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 94 active West Orange Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$127,907[2]

94 active officers

Median local school staff

$104,935

WEST ORANGE TOWNSHIP BD OF ED, 769 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.22x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.41x

Median officer to Essex 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 "WEST ORANGE TOWNSHIP 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 Essex 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 West Orange Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202155
202247
202396
202475
202562

Incidents

44 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by West Orange Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202148
202240
202363
202458
202544

Officers on IA rows

61 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for West Orange Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202471
202561
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 West Orange Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202212.766
202319.792
202424
202519.355

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 61 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by West Orange Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation39
Demeanor7
Differential Treatment6
not provided2
Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise2
Improper Arrest2
Drug Test Failure1
Neglect of Duty1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Differential Treatment · Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise · Improper Arrest · Drug Test Failure · Neglect of Duty

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by West Orange Police Department, 2025
Exonerated35
Sustained12
not provided12
Administratively Closed2
Not Sustained1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

207 of 335

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by West Orange Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202141
202236
202356
202435
202539

Demeanor

67 of 335

Demeanor allegations reported by West Orange Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202112
202210
202322
202416
20257

not provided

15 of 335

not provided allegations reported by West Orange Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20232
202411
20252

Differential Treatment

13 of 335

Differential Treatment allegations reported by West Orange Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20232
20244
20256

Other (15 categories)

33 of 335

Other (15 categories) allegations reported by West Orange Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20220
202314
20249
20258

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
West Orange Police Department140.9
County median, municipal police (22)158.6
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.

62 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 95 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[21] = 65.3 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 93 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across West Orange 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

West Orange Police Department: 13.333 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 20th 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%

74th percentileof 93 peers

146.6 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%

20th percentileof 93 peers

13.3 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%

4th percentileof 93 peers

1.43 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 officers2025140.9156th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20256230th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20254431st of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-2025387th of 282 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year1.93336th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.41x195th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present21172nd of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, down from 1 in 2020 (-100%).
Yearmajor discipline records
20201
20210
20220
20231
20241
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, down from 1 in 2020 (-100%).

Major discipline records reported by West Orange Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2024Andrew AyreOfficerSuspended 10 days[23]
2023David PreziosiOfficerSuspended 60 days[24]
2020Daniel CarrollOfficerSuspended 85 days[25]

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.[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.

This department has no separate listing on OPRAmachine. Records requests for it are handled through West Orange Township, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 21 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 239 filed to West Orange Township are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

21[3]

Identified by subject line, of 260 filed to West Orange Township

Most recent request

March 2026[3]

First recorded May 2020

Awaiting a response

17[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 police-related records requests to West Orange Township (requests)
Awaiting agency response17
Requester reported success3
Requester reported partial success1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to West Orange 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. 2026-03-12Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-06-17Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-04-28Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-04-15Awaiting agency response
  5. 2024-11-27Awaiting agency response
  6. 2024-11-09Awaiting agency response
  7. 2024-10-22Awaiting agency response
  8. 2024-09-10Awaiting agency response
  9. 2024-08-27Awaiting agency response
  10. 2024-05-31Awaiting agency response
  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 West Orange 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 West Orange 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 West Orange Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

West Orange Police Department reported 62 internal affairs investigations in 2025, naming 44 officers. Its rate of 140.9 per 100 officers fell under the Essex County median of 158.6 while running above the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Of the 62 investigations detailed for 2025, 12 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation accounted for the largest share of allegation categories, with Demeanor and Differential Treatment behind it. Three major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2020, 2023 and 2024. Terminations are not reported in those records. West Orange PD received a B on the report card, at the 22nd percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

West Orange Police Department reported 62 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 44 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does West Orange Police Department have?

West Orange Police Department has 3 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 0 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How many officers does West Orange Police Department have?

West Orange Police Department reported 95 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 11.6% of them female. That is 1.93 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 West Orange Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 94 active West Orange Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $127,907. The median for the 769 TPAF-enrolled staff at WEST ORANGE TOWNSHIP BD OF ED is $104,935, a ratio of 1.22x. Against the Essex County school-staff median the ratio is 1.41x. 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 2233. 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 West Orange Township. 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 West Orange 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 8306. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
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  11. [11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1218. 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 1727. 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 710. 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 2233. 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 West Orange 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 West Orange 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 West Orange 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 West Orange 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 West Orange 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 West Orange PD row for 2025. ↩
  21. [21]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8306. 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. ↩
  23. [23]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1084. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  24. [24]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1680. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  25. [25]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2848. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩