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Commissioner of Public Safety

Municipal office in New Jersey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2023
Entity authorityQ5152832 ↗
Source-derived summary

The New Jersey Commissioner of Public Safety heads one of the departments in those local governments in New Jersey that operate under the Walsh Act form of municipal governance, with oversight over the police and fire departments. This is a standalone position in Walsh Act municipalities with a five-member commission. In those commission forms with three members, this role is combined with the Commissioner of Public Affairs role into a consolidated Commissioner of Public Affairs and Public Safety.

Frank Hague, the mayor of Jersey City from 1917 to 1947, served as the city's Commissioner of Public Safety for his entire tenure.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Commissioner of Public Safety” as municipal office in New Jersey. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917, 1947—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Commissioner, Public and Safety can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as municipal office in New Jersey. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Commissioner of Public Safety” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.