![]() Sergeant: Three chevrons, a police officer who supervises an entire watch shift in smaller departments and areas of a precinct and individual detective squads in larger departments.Lieutenants can supervise an entire watch shift in a police station or detective squad ( narcotics, homicide, etc.) in larger police departments, entire barracks in state police departments, and entire precincts in smaller police departments. Lieutenant: Wearing a single gold or silver bar, a lieutenant supervises two to three or more sergeants.In the NYPD, captains are the normal commanders of precincts. A Captain often supervises a police station but can supervise another division or unit (detectives, patrol, etc.) in smaller departments and only certain sections of a police station in larger departments. Captain: Two gold or silver bars ("railroad tracks").In the Baltimore Police Department and Atlanta Police Department, majors supervise police stations. Major /deputy inspector: Sometimes Majors/Deputy Inspectors have the insignia of a gold or silver oak leaf, similar to a major or lieutenant colonel in the armed forces.Many sheriffs also wear the eagle insignia, and use colonel as an official rank. ![]() Colonels generally wear the gold or silver eagle of a military colonel, and lieutenant colonels have the oak leaf of a Military lieutenant colonel, from the U.S. Conversely, the colonel or lieutenant colonel rank is rarely employed by other agencies, though it is used by the Baltimore Police Department and other Maryland agencies as either an executive or commander-like rank. Colonel or lieutenant colonel: A majority of state police as well as some municipal agencies use "colonel" or "lieutenant colonel" as their senior executive rank, often jointly with a civilian title such as "superintendent, deputy superintendent", "commissioner, deputy commissioner" or "director, deputy director", "Chief, Deputy Chief", etc.In the NYPD, inspectors command divisions, which may be groups of precincts within a borough or specialized branches of the police service. "Inspector" is also used as a term for "detective" in the San Francisco Police Department but is two ranks above captain in the NYPD and the Philadelphia Police Department. Inspector/ commander: Sometimes have an insignia of a single star, analogous to brigadier generals, but in other areas wear a gold or silver eagle, similar to a colonel.In some Sheriff's Offices, the rank of Assistant Sheriff exists, below the Undersheriff, but still above Commander and other ranks. The New York City Sheriff's Office has five undersheriffs: each one is responsible for a borough of New York City, with the Sheriff of the City of New York overseeing all of them. In some places the undersheriff is the warden of the county jail. Deputy chief of police/deputy commissioner/deputy superintendent/ chief deputy/Assistant Sheriff: The top subordinate of the chief of police, commissioner, superintendent, or sheriff may or may not have a specific area of responsibility.In New York City, assistant chiefs head borough commands. ![]()
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