law enforcement authority definition

law enforcement authority means any authority responsible for preventing, detecting, investigating, combating and punishing criminal offences, including, but not limited to, the police, any prosecutor, any judicial authority, any public or private prison authority and, where appropriate, any of the state security forces and military authorities;
law enforcement authority or "authority" means, with respect to a home rule charter or statutory city, the chief of police, and with respect to an unincorporated area, the county sheriff.
law enforcement authority means law enforcement, consumer protection, quasi-governmental or other similar authorities designated from time to time by the national or territorial government of the jurisdiction in which Provider is established or maintains a physical office.1

More Definitions of law enforcement authority

law enforcement authority or "authority" means the chief of police of a home rule charter or statutory city and the county sheriff of an unincorporated area in that county. An authority must be located in Minnesota.
law enforcement authority means any authority of the Member States competent under national law for the purpose of preventing, detecting or investigating criminal offences;
law enforcement authority means a police force, the Serious Organised Crime Agency or the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs or an authority having functions under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom
law enforcement authority means the Commissioner of Police or any law enforce- ment body prescribed by the Minister with responsibility for national security, under subsection (2);
law enforcement authority means any authority in a third country responsible for preventing, detecting, investigating, combating and punishing criminal offences, including, but not limited to, the police, any prosecutor, any judicial authority, any public or
law enforcement authority means any authorized representative of a law-enforcement agency.
law enforcement authority means any authority of the Member States competent under national law for the purpose of preventing, detecting or investigating criminal offences, including such authorities that take part in joint entities set up between two or more Member States on the basis of bilateral or multilateral arrangements for the purpose of preventing, detecting or investigating criminal offences. Agencies or units dealing especially with national security issues and liaison officers seconded pursuant to Art. 47 of the CISA are not covered by this definition of law enforcement authority;