Department profile · Bergen County
Wyckoff Township Police Department
Reported as: Wyckoff 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.
Officers named in IA cases, 2024
1[1]
Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing
IA investigations, 2024
1[1]
Incidents, 2024
1[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
26[6]
64 years reported
| Year | sworn officers |
|---|---|
| 1960 | 12 |
| 1961 | not reported |
| 1962 | 13 |
| 1963 | 13 |
| 1964 | 14 |
| 1965 | 15 |
| 1966 | 16 |
| 1967 | not reported |
| 1968 | 17 |
| 1969 | 18 |
| 1970 | 20 |
| 1971 | 20 |
| 1972 | 22 |
| 1973 | 22 |
| 1974 | 23 |
| 1975 | 23 |
| 1976 | 24 |
| 1977 | 23 |
| 1978 | 24 |
| 1979 | 25 |
| 1980 | 23 |
| 1981 | 24 |
| 1982 | 24 |
| 1983 | 24 |
| 1984 | 22 |
| 1985 | 23 |
| 1986 | 23 |
| 1987 | 23 |
| 1988 | 26 |
| 1989 | 24 |
| 1990 | 22 |
| 1991 | 24 |
| 1992 | 23 |
| 1993 | 22 |
| 1994 | 24 |
| 1995 | 24 |
| 1996 | 24 |
| 1997 | 24 |
| 1998 | 25 |
| 1999 | 25 |
| 2000 | 25 |
| 2001 | 26 |
| 2002 | 26 |
| 2003 | 26 |
| 2004 | 25 |
| 2005 | 24 |
| 2006 | 26 |
| 2007 | 25 |
| 2008 | 25 |
| 2009 | 23 |
| 2010 | 23 |
| 2011 | 23 |
| 2012 | 23 |
| 2013 | 23 |
| 2014 | 23 |
| 2015 | 23 |
| 2016 | 25 |
| 2017 | 26 |
| 2018 | 26 |
| 2019 | 26 |
| 2020 | 27 |
| 2021 | 26 |
| 2022 | 26 |
| 2023 | 26 |
| 2024 | 26 |
| 2025 | 26 |
How Wyckoff 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, 15-29 officers (n=166)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 14–16 | 17 |
| 16–18 | 20 |
| 18–20 | 27 |
| 20–22 | 17 |
| 22–24 | 26 |
| 24–26 | 24 |
| 26–28 | 16 |
| 28–30 | 19 |
Wyckoff Township Police Department: 26 sworn officers: 81st percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=166).
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 comparisonA separate dataset from the discipline records above: NJ Treasury pension salaries as of March 31, 2026, for the 26 active Wyckoff Township Police Department officers in the file.
Median local school staff
$97,015
WYCKOFF TOWNSHIP BD OF ED, 228 TPAF members
Against the local district
1.40x
Median officer to median local school staff
Against the county
1.48x
Median officer to Bergen County school-staff median
Military surplus equipment (1033 program)
In brief
Written by this site from the figures below.
Wyckoff Township Police Department received four recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the federal military surplus program between 2017 and 2022, with a total recorded value of $105,032 in original Department of Defense acquisition cost rather than current or market value. Categories this site classes as tactical account for $77,464 of that. Unmanned ground vehicles led at $77,060, followed by ADPE system configuration at $23,568 and Clothing, special purpose at $4,000. These are transfers received, not a current inventory, and non-controlled items may be disposed of after one year. Receiving surplus equipment through the program is not misconduct, and this federal data is separate in origin from the Attorney General discipline records on this page.
Surplus military equipment transferred to this agency under the Defense Department's 1033 program, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency.
Quantities received, by unit of issue: 58 items (Each). Units of issue differ (an item and a kit are not the same thing), so no single combined item count exists.
Top categories by recorded value
| Unmanned ground vehicles | 77,060 tactical |
|---|---|
| ADPE system configuration | 23,568 mundane |
| Clothing, special purpose | 4,000 mundane |
| Guns, through 30mm | 404 tactical |
Categories received: tactical vs mundane
Each category is classed tactical or mundane by this site's published classification of its Federal Supply Class. Much of what moves through the program is mundane surplus (tools, office and medical equipment); the tactical rows are what the Militarization Index below measures.
Every recorded transfer
Equipment class
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4 of 4 recorded transfers shown. Quantities are per unit of issue and are never summed across units. DEMIL code A: non-controlled property, may be disposed of after one year (so a listed item is not necessarily still held). Codes such as C, D, F, and Q: controlled property with federal return or demilitarization requirements.
Wyckoff Township Police Department received $2,979 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 84th percentile among municipal police agencies of similar size (15-29 officers, n=167).
Peer group: Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=167)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–5000 | 147 |
| 5000–10000 | 13 |
| 10000–15000 | 4 |
| 15000–20000 | 1 |
| 20000–25000 | 0 |
| 25000–30000 | 1 |
Wyckoff Township Police Department: 2,979 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 84th percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=167).
A higher index is not automatically worse. It divides cumulative transfers over the covered window by current staffing, so it measures how intensively an agency has participated in the program, not what it holds today. See the methodology.
Statewide totals, per-county rollups, and the top categories across all of New Jersey are on the 1033 program overview.
Internal affairs investigations by year
counts
| Category | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 |
Incidents
1 in 2024
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 |
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 · 4 reported years
| Year | share of total |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 100 |
| 2023 | 100 |
| 2024 | 0 |
Statewide, 19.5 percent of investigations reported a sustained complaint in 2025. How dispositions break down statewide.
Complaint mix, 2024
Most serious allegation per investigation, as categorized by the reporting agency. Officer-level rows list 1 officers involved.
Most serious allegation
| not provided | 1 |
|---|
Internal disposition
| not provided | 1 |
|---|
Allegations by year, 2021 to 2024
Demeanor
2 of 6
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 |
Other Departmental Rule Violation
2 of 6
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
not provided
1 of 6
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 |
Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation
1 of 6
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
Report card
Grade A: Lowest fifth of peers
On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology
- Combined standing
- 2nd percentile of 171 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 Wyckoff 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, 15-29 officers (n=171)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–50 | 120 |
| 50–100 | 24 |
| 100–150 | 15 |
| 150–200 | 7 |
| 200–250 | 3 |
| 250–300 | 2 |
Wyckoff Township Police Department: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 25th percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=171).
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%
100.0 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%
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%
1.60 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
| Metric | Value | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30 | $2,979 | 72nd of 163 municipal police |
| Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year | 1.48 | 429th of 460 municipal police |
| Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-31 | 1.48x | 151st of 415 municipal police |
| OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present | 18 | 220th 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.[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 Wyckoff Township, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 18 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 56 filed to Wyckoff Township are about something else and are not shown.
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.
| Awaiting agency response | 14 |
|---|---|
| Requester reported success | 3 |
| Under internal review | 1 |
Recent requests
The 12 most recent police-related requests to Wyckoff 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.
- 2025-12-15Awaiting agency response
- 2025-10-05Awaiting agency response
- 2025-09-13Awaiting agency response
- 2024-08-19Awaiting agency response
- 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
- 2023-08-31Awaiting agency response
- 2023-06-01Under internal review
- 2023-06-01Awaiting agency response
- 2021-05-22Awaiting agency response
- 2021-04-29Awaiting agency response
- 2021-04-20Requester reported success
- 2021-03-04Requester 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.
A member of the public requested: “Booking Report / Arrest Log”
2025-12-15 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Police Records Request”
2025-10-05 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Arrest statistics CY 2025”
2025-09-13 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Elise B. Carlson Police Report for Motor Vehicle Summons 2024”
2024-08-19 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Purchase order history for the police department from 2020 - 2023”
2023-08-31 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Invoice of Body Camera Purchase in the Police Department”
2023-08-31 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Bid Tabulation Results for Construction of Police/Field Maintenance Pole BarnMultiple Contracts”
2023-06-01 · Under internal review
A member of the public requested: “Bid Tabulation Results for Construction of Police/Field Maintenance Pole BarnMultiple Contracts”
2023-06-01 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Police Entrance Exam”
2021-05-22 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Police Entrance Exam”
2021-04-29 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Civilian Review Board/Police Advisory Boards”
2021-04-20 · Requester reported success
A member of the public requested: “Police Contract”
2021-03-04 · Requester reported success
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 Wyckoff 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 Wyckoff 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
How many internal affairs investigations did Wyckoff Township Police Department report in 2024?
Wyckoff Township Police Department reported 1 internal affairs investigations in 2024, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 1 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.
How many major discipline records does Wyckoff Township Police Department have?
No major discipline records appear for Wyckoff 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 Wyckoff Township Police Department have?
Wyckoff Township Police Department reported 26 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 11.5% of them female. That is 1.48 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 military surplus equipment has Wyckoff Township Police Department received through the 1033 program?
Wyckoff Township Police Department received 4 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program between 2017 and 2022, with a total recorded value of $105,032 (original DoD acquisition cost, not current or market value). The largest category by recorded value was: Unmanned ground vehicles. Transfers are as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency as of 2026-06-30; equipment acquired through the program is not necessarily still held.
What is the total recorded value of the 1033 equipment Wyckoff Township Police Department received?
The surplus equipment recorded for Wyckoff Township Police Department under the 1033 program totals $105,032 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $77,464 is in categories this site classes as tactical (2 of 4 line items). These are original-cost figures at the time of transfer, not current or market value.
What does Wyckoff Township Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?
The median pensionable salary for the 26 active Wyckoff Township Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $135,871. The median for the 228 TPAF-enrolled staff at WYCKOFF TOWNSHIP BD OF ED is $97,015, a ratio of 1.40x. Against the Bergen County school-staff median the ratio is 1.48x. 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]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 596. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [2]DoD 1033 Program transfers (LESO Public Information), New Jersey sheet. Defense Logistics Agency (U.S. Department of Defense). LESO Public Information: DISP_AllStatesAndTerritories, quarterly file as of 2026-06-30; recorded ship dates 1993-2026. Retrieved 2026-07-10. https://www.dla.mil/Disposition-Services/Offers/Law-Enforcement/Public-Information/ ↩
- [3]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. ↩
- [4]Records-request activity for Wyckoff 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. ↩
- [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]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8198. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8198. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [8]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8198. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [9]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8198. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 87. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1104. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1616. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [13]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 596. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [14]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 Wyckoff Twp PD row for 2024; row 1 is the header. ↩
- [15]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 Wyckoff Twp PD row for 2021. ↩
- [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 Wyckoff Twp PD row for 2022. ↩
- [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 Wyckoff Twp PD row for 2023. ↩
- [18]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 Wyckoff Twp PD row for 2024. ↩
- [19]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. ↩