New Jersey § 53:1-20
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§ 53:1-20.
To the end that the county bureaus of identification in each of the counties of this
State and the bureau of identification of the Department of the State Police 1 may have available the requisite information for the keeping of such records, it
shall be the duty of sheriffs, members of the State Police, county detectives, chiefs
of police and other law enforcement officers, immediately upon the receipt of a complaint
that an indictable offense has been committed, to forward to the county bureau of
identification and the bureau of identification of the State Police Department all
of such information which can at that time be obtained, on forms to be provided for
that purpose by the head of the office in which such county bureau of identification
is established. It shall also be the duty of such officers, from time to time, upon receipt of additional
information, to forward the same to the county bureau of identification and to the
bureau of identification of the State Police Department, on forms to be provided for
that purpose by the head of the office in which such county bureau of identification
is established. It shall also be the duty of the prosecutor of the pleas, the county clerks, and the
probation office in the various counties of this State to supply to the county bureau
of identification and to the bureau of identification in the Department of State Police
all information on record in their respective offices which may be necessary to complete
the records in the prescribed form, as set forth in section one hereof. The duties herein prescribed to be performed by the public officers and employees
herein referred to shall be additional to the duties now prescribed by law to be performed
by such public officers and employees. The words “The County Bureau of Identification,” as used in this act, shall be taken
to mean the bureau of identification as now established in the office of the sheriff
or in the office of the prosecutors of the pleas in the respective counties in this
State. 1
Now division of state police in department of law and public safety, see N.J.S.A.
§§ 52:17B-6, 52:17B-51.
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