1998 Minnesota Statutes

     299C.05 Division of criminal statistics.  

    There is hereby established within the bureau a division of 
 criminal statistics, and the superintendent, within the limits 
 of membership herein prescribed, shall appoint a qualified 
 statistician and one assistant to be in charge thereof.  It 
 shall be the duty of this division to collect, and preserve as a 
 record of the bureau, information concerning the number and 
 nature of offenses known to have been committed in the state, of 
 the legal steps taken in connection therewith from the inception 
 of the complaint to the final discharge of the defendant, and 
 such other information as may be useful in the study of crime 
 and the administration of justice.  The information so collected 
 and preserved shall include such data as may be requested by the 
 United States department of justice, at Washington, under its 
 national system of crime reporting.  

    HIST: (9950-7) 1927 c 224 s 3; 1935 c 197 s 2; 1939 c 441 s 41