Sponsored by:
Senator GORDON M. JOHNSON
District 37 (Bergen)
SYNOPSIS
Authorizes certain federal law enforcement officers to make arrests for violation of NJ law.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning certain federal law enforcement officers and amending P.L.1983, c.268.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1983, c.268 (C.2A:154-5) is amended to read as follows:
1. The following persons employed as full-time law enforcement officers by the Federal Government, who are empowered to effect an arrest with or without warrant for violations of the United States Code and who are authorized to carry firearms in the performance of their duties, shall be empowered to act as an officer for the arrest of offenders against the laws of this State where the person reasonably believes that a crime of the first, second or third degree is or is about to be committed or attempted in his presence:
Federal Bureau of Investigation special agents;
United States Secret Service special agents;
Immigration and Naturalization Service special agents, investigators and patrol officers;
United States Marshal Service deputies;
Drug Enforcement Administration special agents;
United States Postal inspectors;
United States Postal police officers while in the performance of
their official duties;
United States Customs Service special agents, inspectors and patrol officers;
United States General Services Administration special agents;
United States Department of Agriculture special agents;
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms special agents;
Internal Revenue Service special agents and inspectors;
Department of the Interior special agents, investigators, and park rangers;
Federal Reserve law enforcement officers while in the performance of their official duties; [and]
United States Department of Defense police officers;
Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents;
Department of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations special agents;
Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division special agents;
Coast Guard Investigative Service special agents; and
Department of Defense
Office of Inspector General Defense
Criminal Investigative Service special agents.
(cf: P.L.2008, c.42, s.2)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill authorizes certain federal law enforcement officers to make arrests for violations of State law constituting crimes of the first, second, or third degree.
Under current law, certain federal law enforcement officers are authorized to act as an officer for the arrest of offenders against the laws of this State where the person reasonably believes that a crime of the first, second, or third degree is or is about to be committed or attempted in the persons presence.
This bill expands the list of federal law enforcement officers to include Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents; Department of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations special agents; Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division special agents; Coast Guard Investigative Service special agents, and Department of Defense Office of Inspector General Defense Criminal Investigative Service special agents.