52:17B-67 Definitions.
2. As used in this act:
"Approved school" shall mean a school approved and authorized by the Police Training Commission to give police training courses or a training course for State and county correctional police officers and juvenile detention officers as prescribed in this act.
"Commission" shall mean the Police Training Commission or officers or employees thereof acting on its behalf.
"County" shall mean any county which within its jurisdiction has or shall have a law enforcement unit as defined in this act.
"Law enforcement unit" shall mean any police force or organization in a municipality or county which has by statute or ordinance the responsibility of detecting crime and enforcing the general criminal laws of this State.
"Municipality" shall mean a city of any class, township, borough, village, camp meeting association, or any other type of municipality in this State which, within its jurisdiction, has or shall have a law enforcement unit as defined in this act.
"Permanent appointment" shall mean an appointment having permanent status as a police officer in a law enforcement unit as prescribed by Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes, Civil Service Commission Rules and Regulations, or of any other law of this State, municipal ordinance, or rules and regulations adopted thereunder.
"Police officer" shall mean any employee of a law enforcement unit, including sheriff's officers and county investigators in the office of the county prosecutor, other than civilian heads thereof, assistant prosecutors and legal assistants, persons appointed pursuant to the provisions of R.S.40:47-19, persons whose duties do not include any police function, court attendants, State and county correctional police officers, juvenile correctional police officers, and juvenile detention officers.
L.1961, c.56, s.2; amended 1971, c.321, s.1; 1985, c.491, s.1; 1988, c.176, s.2; 1995, c.280, s.54; 2019, c.219, s.8.
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