P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 533
(a) Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) or System.— Shall be the system charged with providing complete and correct information to the various components of the Criminal Justice Information System of Puerto Rico.
(b) Intergovernmental Committee or Committee.— Shall be the committee composed of the heads of the Department of Justice, the Puerto Rico Police Department, the Judicial Branch of Puerto Rico, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of the Family, the Department of Transportation and Public Works, the Institute of Forensic Sciences, who shall be responsible for the enforcement of this chapter, or any person with similar duties as designated by them. Said personnel shall have the same decision-making authorities as the persons who designated them.
(c) Protocol to Guarantee Effective Communication among Security Components of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or Protocol.— Shall be the set of rules and procedures drafted by the Committee and adopted by every government entity with jurisdiction over the Island’s public safety and those entities closely related thereto, which are described in this chapter.
(d) Administrative Director of the Intergovernmental Committee.— Shall be appointed by the Committee and shall discharge all the duties entrusted to him/her by the Committee.
(e) Information.— Criminal data, including both felonies and misdemeanors which are received and protected under the Protocol created in this chapter and is available to be evaluated by the government entities with jurisdiction over the Island’s public safety and those entities closely related thereto.
(f) Serious offense.— Any offense applicable to officials of the various government entities that comprise the Intergovernmental Committee who have been assigned to work with the Protocol, which offenses are punished by dismissal from the office they held in the corresponding government entity, or unpaid suspension for a term that shall not exceed five (5) months.
(g) Disciplinary action.— Measure taken by an agency when the conduct of an employee fails to abide by the rules established in this chapter.
(h) Unpaid suspension.— An employee’s temporary removal and unpaid suspension from work, which is imposed as a disciplinary action with just cause.
(i) Dismissal or removal.— Total and absolute separation from service imposed on an employee as a disciplinary action for just cause.
History —Aug. 26, 2014, No. 143, § 3.