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Woodbury City Police Department

Reported as: Woodbury City 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

Woodbury City Police Department logged 12 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 10 officers. Its rate of 120 per 100 officers fell below the Gloucester County median of 124.3 and the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Six of the 12 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, with Demeanor and Improper Arrest also logged.

No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Woodbury City PD received an A on the report card, at the 4th 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

10[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

12[1]

Incidents, 2025

11[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

35[6]

65 years reported

35 sworn officers in 2025, up from 25 in 1960 (+40%).
Yearsworn officers
196025
196124
196224
196325
1964not reported
196523
196622
196724
196824
196924
197024
197123
197223
197323
197424
197523
197623
197723
197823
197923
198022
198122
198223
198322
198424
198524
198624
198724
198824
198924
199025
199125
199225
199326
199428
199527
199627
199727
199826
199927
200027
200127
200226
200327
200427
200527
200627
200727
200827
200927
201028
201128
201227
201328
201427
201528
201629
201728
201829
201926
202027
202133
202227
202335
202435
202535

Civilian employees, 2025

3[7]

0.09 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

4[8]

11.4% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

3.44[9]

Municipal departments only

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

How Woodbury City 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
30–3538
35–4026
40–4516
45–5014
50–5510
55–607

Woodbury City Police Department: 35 sworn officers: 38th 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 Woodbury City Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$115,284[2]

32 active officers

Median local school staff

$75,786

WOODBURY CITY BD OF ED, 199 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.52x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.43x

Median officer to Gloucester 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 "WOODBURY CITY 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 Gloucester 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 Woodbury City Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202110
20227
20239
20247
202512

Incidents

11 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Woodbury City Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202110
20227
20239
20247
202511

Officers on IA rows

12 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Woodbury City Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
20247
202512
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 Woodbury City Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
20220
20230
202414.286
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 12 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Woodbury City Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation4
not provided2
Demeanor2
Improper Arrest1
Excessive Force1
Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation1
Attendance Issues1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Improper Arrest · Excessive Force · Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation · Attendance Issues

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Woodbury City Police Department, 2025
Not Sustained4
Sustained4
Unfounded2
not provided1
Administratively Closed1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Demeanor

13 of 45

Demeanor allegations reported by Woodbury City Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20225
20233
20242
20252

Other Departmental Rule Violation

13 of 45

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Woodbury City Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20222
20233
20243
20254

Excessive Force

4 of 45

Excessive Force allegations reported by Woodbury City Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20220
20230
20241
20251

not provided

4 of 45

not provided allegations reported by Woodbury City Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20232
20240
20252

Other (7 categories)

11 of 45

Other (7 categories) allegations reported by Woodbury City Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20216
20220
20231
20241
20253

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Woodbury City Police Department120.0
County median, municipal police (18)124.3
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.

12 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 35 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[21] = 34.3 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 A: Lowest fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
4th 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 Woodbury City 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

Woodbury City 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%

10th percentileof 110 peers

108.7 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%

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%

51st percentileof 110 peers

2.10 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 officers2025120.0260th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations202512188th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents202511163rd of 445 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year3.4487th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.43x182nd of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present6454th 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

6[3]

Every request filed to this department

Most recent request

May 2026[3]

First recorded March 2025

Awaiting a response

5[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 Woodbury City Police Department (requests)
Awaiting agency response5
Requester reported success1

Recent requests

The 6 most recent requests to Woodbury City 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. 2026-05-04Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-10-08Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-09-17Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-05-09Requester reported success
  5. 2025-03-01Awaiting agency response
  6. 2025-03-01Awaiting 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 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 Woodbury City 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 Woodbury City Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Woodbury City Police Department logged 12 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 10 officers. Its rate of 120 per 100 officers fell below the Gloucester County median of 124.3 and the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Six of the 12 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, with Demeanor and Improper Arrest also logged. No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Woodbury City PD received an A on the report card, at the 4th percentile among 110 peers in the 30-59 officers group, a medium-confidence grade.

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

Woodbury City Police Department reported 12 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 10 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Woodbury City Police Department have?

No major discipline records appear for Woodbury City 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 Woodbury City Police Department have?

Woodbury City Police Department reported 35 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 11.4% of them female. That is 3.44 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 Woodbury City Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 32 active Woodbury City Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $115,284. The median for the 199 TPAF-enrolled staff at WOODBURY CITY BD OF ED is $75,786, a ratio of 1.52x. Against the Gloucester County school-staff median the ratio is 1.43x. 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 2253. 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 Woodbury City 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 Woodbury City 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.
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  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 Woodbury City 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 Woodbury City 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 Woodbury City 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 Woodbury City 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 Woodbury City 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 Woodbury City PD row for 2025. ↩
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  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. ↩