Bill Text: NJ S2025 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands membership of Police Training Commission to include representative from Chiefs of County Detectives/Investigators Association of NJ.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-26 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [S2025 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S2025-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2025

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 26, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  ANTHONY R. BUCCO

District 25 (Morris and Somerset)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Expands membership of Police Training Commission to include representative from Chiefs of County Detectives/Investigators Association of NJ.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the Police Training Commission and amending P.L.1961, c.56.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Section 5 of P.L.1961, c.56 (C.52:17B-70) is amended to read as follows:

     5.    There is hereby established in the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety a Police Training Commission whose membership shall consist of the following persons:

     a.     Two citizens of this State who shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate for terms of three years commencing with the expiration of the terms of the citizen members, other than the representative of the New Jersey Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, now in office.

     b.    The president or other representative designated in accordance with the bylaws of each of the following organizations: the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police; the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association, Inc.; the New Jersey State League of Municipalities; the New Jersey State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police; the County Prosecutors' Association of New Jersey; the Sheriffs' Association of New Jersey; the Police Academy Directors Association; the New Jersey County Jail Wardens Association; the New Jersey Juvenile Detention Association; [and] the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives; and the Chiefs of County Detectives/Investigators Association of New Jersey.

     c.     The Attorney General, the Superintendent of State Police, the Commissioner of Education, the Secretary of Higher Education, the Commissioner of Corrections, and the Chairman of the State Parole Board, ex officio, or when so designated by them, their deputies.

     d.    The Special Agent in Charge of the State of New Jersey for the Federal Bureau of Investigation or a designated representative.

(cf:  P.L.2015, c.258, s.1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the second month following enactment.

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would add a representative from the Chiefs of County Detectives/Investigators Association of New Jersey as a member of the New Jersey Police Training Commission.

     The Chiefs of County Detectives/Investigators Association of New Jersey consists of the Chief of Detectives from each of the 21 county Prosecutor's Offices and the Chief of Detectives of the New Jersey Attorney General's Office, Division of Criminal Justice. They supervise, advise, and interact with law enforcement personnel on a day-to-day basis and therefore have knowledge regarding the training and education that is necessary for law enforcement personnel.