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Winfield Police Department

Reported as: Winfield 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

Winfield Police Department reported two internal affairs investigations in 2025, with two officers named. At 100 per 100 officers, its rate fell below the Union County median of 137 and the 125.9 statewide municipal median. One of the two investigations detailed for 2025 reported a sustained complaint. The allegation categories logged were Demeanor and Neglect of Duty.

No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Winfield PD received an A on the report card, at the 14th percentile among 100 peers in the 1-14 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

2[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

2[1]

Incidents, 2025

2[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

10[6]

62 years reported

10 sworn officers in 2025, up from 0 in 1962.
Yearsworn officers
19620
19630
1964not reported
1965not reported
196617
196719
196824
196924
197024
197118
197224
197324
197424
197523
197625
197730
19784
19794
19804
19814
19824
19834
19844
19854
19865
19876
19889
19899
19908
19918
19928
19938
19948
19959
19969
19978
19988
19998
20009
20019
20029
20039
20049
200510
200610
20079
20089
20099
20108
20118
20129
20138
20147
20158
20168
201710
201810
201910
20209
20219
202210
202310
20249
202510

Civilian employees, 2025

0[7]

0 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

0[8]

0% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

6.93[9]

Municipal departments only

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

How Winfield 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, 1-14 officers (n=100)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 1-14 officers
RangeAgencies
0–213
2–43
4–61
6–817
8–1011
10–1214
12–1441

Winfield Police Department: 10 sworn officers: 49th percentile among Municipal police, 1-14 officers (n=100).

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 10 active Winfield Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$81,704[2]

10 active officers

Median local school staff

$70,593

WINFIELD TOWNSHIP BD OF ED, 22 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.16x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

0.91x

Median officer to Union 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 "WINFIELD 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 Union 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 Winfield Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
20211
20221
202328
20241
20252

Incidents

2 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Winfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20221
202328
20241
20252

Officers on IA rows

2 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Winfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
20241
20252
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 Winfield Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
2022100
202353.571
20240
202550

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 2 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Winfield Police Department, 2025
Demeanor1
Neglect of Duty1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Demeanor · Neglect of Duty

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Winfield Police Department, 2025
Not Sustained1
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

12 of 33

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Winfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
202312
20240
20250

Demeanor

8 of 33

Demeanor allegations reported by Winfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20221
20235
20240
20251

Attendance issues

5 of 33

Attendance issues allegations reported by Winfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20235
20240
20250

Neglect of Duty

3 of 33

Neglect of Duty allegations reported by Winfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20232
20240
20251

Other (4 categories)

5 of 33

Other (4 categories) allegations reported by Winfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20234
20241
20250

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Winfield Police Department100.0
County median, municipal police (23)137.0
NJ median, municipal police (445)125.9

Investigations per 100 officers named in that year's IA investigations (the Attorney General's own "Number of Officers" field, a distinct-officer count drawn from the IA case data itself, not a department headcount). A higher number is ambiguous on its own: it can reflect more misconduct, or a stronger internal reporting culture. Medians are computed within the same agency type only.

AnalysisA second, independent rate using FBI-reported staffing instead.

2 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 10 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[21] = 20.0 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 A: Lowest fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
14th percentile of 100 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 Winfield Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: Municipal police, 1-14 officers (n=100)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 1-14 officers
RangeAgencies
0–5074
50–1006
100–1508
150–2002
200–2504
250–3002
300–3504

Winfield Police Department: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 34th percentile among Municipal police, 1-14 officers (n=100).

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%

41st percentileof 100 peers

115.0 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%

34th percentileof 100 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%

12th percentileof 100 peers

1.53 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 officers2025100.0322nd of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20252376th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20252364th of 445 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year6.9326th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-310.91x392nd of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present8446th 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.

This department has no separate listing on OPRAmachine. Records requests for it are handled through Winfield Township, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 8 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 42 filed to Winfield Township are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

8[3]

Identified by subject line, of 50 filed to Winfield Township

Most recent request

August 2023[3]

First recorded May 2020

Awaiting a response

7[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 Winfield Township (requests)
Awaiting agency response7
Requester reported success1

Recent requests

The 8 most recent police-related requests to Winfield 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. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  2. 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
  3. 2021-04-20Requester reported success
  4. 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
  5. 2020-05-28Awaiting agency response
  6. 2020-05-27Awaiting agency response
  7. 2020-05-27Awaiting agency response
  8. 2020-05-27Awaiting 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 Winfield 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 Winfield 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 Winfield Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Winfield Police Department reported two internal affairs investigations in 2025, with two officers named. At 100 per 100 officers, its rate fell below the Union County median of 137 and the 125.9 statewide municipal median. One of the two investigations detailed for 2025 reported a sustained complaint. The allegation categories logged were Demeanor and Neglect of Duty. No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Winfield PD received an A on the report card, at the 14th percentile among 100 peers in the 1-14 officers group, a medium-confidence grade.

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

Winfield Police Department reported 2 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 2 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Winfield Police Department have?

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

Winfield Police Department reported 10 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 0% of them female. That is 6.93 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 Winfield Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 10 active Winfield Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $81,704. The median for the 22 TPAF-enrolled staff at WINFIELD TOWNSHIP BD OF ED is $70,593, a ratio of 1.16x. Against the Union County school-staff median the ratio is 0.91x. 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 2545. 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 Winfield 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 Winfield 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 8621. 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 498. 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 1521. 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 2026. 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 1006. 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 2545. 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 Winfield 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 Winfield 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 Winfield 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 Winfield 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 Winfield 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 Winfield PD row for 2025. ↩
  21. [21]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8621. 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. ↩