N.J. Stat. Ann. § 53:1-1

The department of state police, created and established by an act entitled "An act creating a department of state police, providing for the appointment of a superintendent thereof, together with the officers and men who shall constitute the force, defining their powers and duties, and making an appropriation for the expenses connected therewith," passed March twenty-ninth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one (L.1921, c. 102, p. 167), as amended and supplemented, is continued. The executive and administrative head of such department shall be a superintendent of state police.