Failure to make arrest or retain person arrested in custody
59:5-5. Failure to make arrest or retain person arrested in custody
Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for injury caused by the failure to make an arrest or by the failure to retain an arrested person in custody.
L.1972, c. 45, s. 59:5-5.
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