The Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) is responsible for investigating and prosecuting violations of New Jersey criminal laws. With a staff consisting of over 400 detectives, prosecutors, civil investigators, and professional support personnel, DCJ investigates criminal activity across the State, focusing on high-impact cases that require significant or highly specialized investigative resources. DCJ also provides integral statewide trainings for prosecutors and law enforcement officers. In addition, DCJ assists the Attorney General in his role as the State’s chief law enforcement officer, which pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act of 1970, gives the Attorney General broad supervisory authority over New Jersey’s 21 County Prosecutors’ Offices and the State’s 38,000 law enforcement officers.
NOTICE
On November 7, 2024, the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered the publication of two documents related to prior driving while intoxicated (DWI) convictions derivative of inadmissible Alcotest results:
1) S-152—an excel spreadsheet of every breath sample given on an affected Alcotest instrument between November 5, 2008, and April 9, 2016; and
2) The “Dennis Calibration Repository”—PDFs of the 1,046 calibration records of the affected Alcotest instruments.
For more information please see:
Victim Information:
1) How to file a domestic violence restraining order; 2) resources for domestic violence victims; and 3) petitioning the court to dissolve the no contact order for defendants/juveniles released from custody due to public health emergency credits.
Forms For Attorney General Directive Strengthening Oversight of Municipal Court Prosecutions
[Law Enforcement Directive 2019-7]
Beginning in January 2025, for the reporting period of January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024 and going forward, Municipal Prosecutor Disclosure Statements and Municipal Prosecutor Separation Statements must be reported via the Law Enforcement Reporting Portal.
Please contact reportingrequirements@njoag.gov if you have additional questions.
Recent News
AG’s Office: Newton Man Sentenced to Five Years in Prison in International Business E-Mail Compromise Scheme
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Securities Fraud and Financial Crimes Prosecutions (OSFFCP) today announced the sentencing of a Sussex County man who admitted receiving over $1.2 million in stolen funds in an international business email compromise (BEC) scheme in 2017 and 2018.
AG Platkin: Seven Defendants Indicted as Two Separate Human Trafficking Rings Are Dismantled in North and South Jersey
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ), and the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) today announced that seven defendants were indicted in connection with two separate human trafficking enterprises in North and South Jersey. One human trafficking ring was based in Essex County, where a suspected female trafficker allegedly used beatings with an electrical cord and other acts of physical violence to control the teenage victims, subjecting them to sexual assaults by strangers and profiting from the abuse.
AG Platkin Holds Strategy Meeting in Newark with Law Enforcement Leaders on Use of New Burglary Laws and Announces Statewide Burglary Task Force to Curtail Residential Burglaries and Home Invasions
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin held a meeting in Newark with law enforcement leaders from across the state to discuss how officers and prosecutors can best use the newly enacted laws that heighten criminal penalties for residential burglaries.