The complaints of workplace harassment against the Princeton police chief have been forwarded to the Mercer County Prosecutor.

Sources who asked to remain anonymous said the Princeton Police Benevolent Association filed a workplace harassment complaint on behalf of at least three officers against police chief David Dudeck. The chief, a 30-year veteran, allegedly made inappropriate comments to the officers both in private and in front of other officers. Because the allegations are against a chief, Princeton referred the case to the prosecutor’s office.

County prosecutor spokeswoman Casey DeBlasio said in an email Monday that “Attorney general guidelines require us to conduct all investigations where a police chief or director is implicated. It is in that capacity that the prosecutor’s office is currently reviewing allegations of administrative misconduct by Chief Dudeck.”

She said the office would have no further comment.

Dudeck has served on the Princeton police force since 1983 and was named the chief of the borough police department in 2009. Last year, he was named the chief of the consolidated Princeton. Dudeck, according to the old Princeton Borough website, is an alumnus and football coach at the Hun School of Princeton.

That coaching experience played into his role as the chief, according to former borough police commissioner Kevin Wilkes. He joined Princeton borough council in 2008 and served as the borough’s police commissioner from 2010 until the borough’s consolidation this year.

He said his job was to “keep our fingers on the pulse of the personnel and police issues with relation to employees within the municipality.”

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