Section 835. Definitions

1.  "Division"  means  the  division  of criminal
  justice services.
    3. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the division  of  criminal
  justice services.
    4. "Council" means the municipal police training council.
    5.  "Federal  acts"  means  the federal omnibus crime control and safe
  streets act  of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-eight,  the  federal  juvenile
  delinquency  prevention and control act of nineteen hundred sixty-eight,
  and any act or acts amendatory or supplemental thereto.
    6. "Municipality" means  any  county,  city,  town,  park  commission,
  village, or police district in the state.
    7.  "Police  officer"  means  a  member  of  a  police  force or other
  organization of a municipality who is responsible for the prevention and
  detection of crime and the enforcement of the general criminal  laws  of
  the  state,  but  shall not include any person serving as such solely by
  virtue of his occupying any other office or  position,  nor  shall  such
  term include a sheriff, under-sheriff, commissioner of police, deputy or
  assistant  commissioner  of police, chief of police, deputy or assistant
  chief of police  or  any  person  having  an  equivalent  title  who  is
  appointed   or   employed  by  a  municipality  to  exercise  equivalent
  supervisory authority.
    7-a. "Police officer," for the purpose of the central state  registry,
  means  a person designated as such in subdivision thirty-four of section
  1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
    7-b. "Peace officer" means a person designated as such in section 2.10
  of the criminal procedure law.
    8. "Police agency" means any agency or department of any municipality,
  commission,  authority  or  other  public  benefit  corporation   having
  responsibility for enforcing the criminal laws of the state.
    9.  "Qualified agencies" means courts in the unified court system, the
  administrative board of the judicial conference, probation  departments,
  sheriffs'  offices, district attorneys' offices, the state department of
  correctional services, the state division of probation,  the  department
  of  correction  of  any municipality, the insurance frauds bureau of the
  state department  of  insurance,  the  office  of  professional  medical
  conduct  of  the  state department of health for the purposes of section
  two hundred thirty of  the  public  health  law,  the  child  protective
  services  unit  of  a  local social services district when conducting an
  investigation pursuant  to  subdivision  six  of  section  four  hundred
  twenty-four of the social services law, the office of Medicaid inspector
  general,  the  temporary state commission of investigation, the criminal
  investigations bureau of  the  banking  department,  police  forces  and
  departments   having  responsibility  for  enforcement  of  the  general
  criminal laws of the state and the Onondaga County Center  for  Forensic
  Sciences  Laboratory when acting within the scope of its law enforcement
  duties.
    10. "Criminal justice function" means the  prevention,  detection  and
  investigation  of  the  commission  of an offense, the apprehension of a
  person for the alleged commission of an offense, the detention,  release
  on  recognizance  or  bail  of a person charged with an offense prior to
  disposition of the charge, the  prosecution  and  defense  of  a  person
  charged  with an offense, the detention, release on recognizance or bail
  of a person convicted of an offense prior to sentencing, the  sentencing
  of  offenders,  probation, incarceration, parole, proceedings in a court
  subsequent to a judgment of conviction relating thereto and the  release
  of offenders from incarceration.