Identification Bureau


                                                                     2 Sergeants

                                                                     5 Officers

                                                                     1 Clerical

The Identification and Communications Bureau is the backbone of the Sheriff's Department.

The Division is responsible for the storage and maintenance of all criminal records of persons arrested within the Cumberland County area. Currently there are approximately 80,000 individual records that are maintained within the file of Identification Bureau. Each "jacket" contains pertinent information about the subject, such as state and federal fingerprint cards, local statistical sheets, and all pertinent criminal information such as mug shots, vital statistics and cross reference information.

A complete file for all county Sheriff's employees and all Department of Corrections employees is kept, including applicant information.

The assigned officers' duties include:

The filing and classification of all fingerprint cards received by the Identification Bureau.

The filing and storage of all Criminal Records received from the FBI and the New Jersey State Police Division of Identification.

There is a Color Photo Laboratory on the premises and crime scene photos are processed for the following Cumberland County Agencies:

Department of Corrections, all jail "Mug" photos are processed and stored.

Prosecutor's Office

Narcotics Task Force

Traffic Safety Unit

Road Department

Mosquito Commission

Fire Marshall's Office

Bridgeton Police Department

Millville Police Department

Vineland Police Department

Millville Fire Department

Vineland Fire Department

New Jersey State Police (Two Stations in Cumberland County)

Carney's Point Police Department (Salem County)

Pennsville Police Department (Salem County)

The Division also offers full video taping of crime scenes for all county agencies.

The Communications Unit of the Identification Bureau operates seven days a week, twenty four hours a day providing access to CJIS, Criminal Justice System, NJCJIS, NJLETS, NCIC, NLETS computer systems. They are also responsible for entering Domestic Violence Warrants, Non Support Warrants and all Criminal warrants for Post Indictment Fugitives.

A complete communications system is integrated with the above, which also provides Motor Vehicle information for all Sheriff's Units and other Criminal Justice agencies in the county, including the United State's Marshall Service, in conjunction with the Federal Prison located in the county. The Communications Unit handles approximately three hundred and fifty radio and telephone messages per day, totaling more that 127,000 per year.

The Bureau is responsible, by virtue of an interagency agreement with the New Jersey State Police and the Bridgeton Police Department, for all computerized entries into CJIS system, also providing Motor Vehicle look-ups and all other computer related resources.  These include the entry of Missing Persons, Stolen Motor Vehicles, Lost or Stolen License Plates, Stolen weapons, Wanted Persons, Stolen Articles and many other items that can be found in the NCIC codes for entry into the system.

The officers assigned to the division are skilled in crime scene investigation, fingerprint classification and NCIC and Criminal History Computer technology. They are the most specially trained officers in the department.

The I.D. Division is a twenty four hour operation and when most other officers are at home with their families, these officers must man their posts.

Theirs is not an easy assignment, they must have patience, perseverance and most of all, dedication.


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