Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Austin Rauch

Stafford Township Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 10 days

Rank as reported: Patrolman
Sustained charge(s): Violation of Stafford Township Police Department's Rules & Regulations; specifically 3:4.2, Department Records.
Separated while IA pending: No

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

The Stafford Township Police Department suspended Patrolman Rauch for 10 days in 2025 on a sustained charge of violating the department records rule. The record states that an internal affairs complaint from a citizen led to a finding that, a year earlier, Rauch had sent images of a police-owned computer screen displaying police database information to people outside the agency. He was also removed from the following year's Detective Bureau assignment.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

In October of 2025, an internal affairs complaint was received from a citizen and an investigation was initiated which revealed that a year prior, Officer Rauch had sent images of a police-owned computer screen displaying information from the police database to members outside this agency in an attempt to help them through a personal situation. This was in direct violation of the rules and regulations specified above. A ten day unpaid suspension was imposed along with the removal from the succeeding year’s Detective Bureau assignment.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $76,400
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 7 years, 7 months

How to read this

The amount is as reported by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury in its YourMoney pension data, as of March 31, 2026. It is the pension-basis figure and may not include overtime, accrued leave, stipends, or other pay. The link between this officer and this pension record is a records-based match at high confidence (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 501. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 240472, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩