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About
OSME |
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The
NJ Office of the State Medical Examiner (OSME)
is established within the Division of Criminal
Justice of the Office of the Attorney General/Department
of Law & Public Safety and is under the immediate
supervision of a State Medical Examiner (SME).
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The
OSME is responsible for the administration and
enforcement of State laws and regulations relating
to the medical examiner system and medicolegal
death investigation in NJ. The SME directly supervises
the State’s Northern and Southern Regional
Medical Examiner Offices (NRMEO
and SRMEO), providing
medicolegal death investigation services to 6
of the 21 NJ counties, and serves in a general
supervisory capacity over the remaining county
medical examiners and their offices. |
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In
NJ, a medicolegal death investigation must be
conducted by a duly certified medical examiner
in all cases of human death that occur under circumstances
that invoke a public interest for the purpose
of public health, public safety and the administration
of justice. These cases include all violent deaths
whether by homicide, suicide or accident; deaths
under suspicious or unusual circumstances; deaths
of inmates of State or county institutions; deaths
of infants and children under the age of three;
and deaths from causes which might constitute
a threat to the public health. |
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