As a plugin developer you can use this plugin as dependency of your plugin by adding a dependency tag to your POM.
To add the latest version of this plugin as a maven dependency, use the following:
<dependency>
<groupId>io.jenkins.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>gerrit-checks-api</artifactId>
<version>55.vf754c52a_e85e</version>
</dependency>