United States
The United States police rank model is generally quasimilitary in structure. Although the large and varied number of federal, state, and local police departments and sheriff's office have different ranks, a general model, from highest to lowest rank, would be:
- Chief of Police, Police Commissioner, Superintendent, Sheriff
- Deputy Chief of Police, Deputy Commissioner, Deputy Superintendent, Undersheriff
- Inspector, Commander, Colonel
- Major, Deputy Inspector
- Captain
- Lieutenant
- Sergeant
- Detective, Inspector, Investigator
- Officer, Deputy Sheriff, Corporal, Trooper
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Famous quotes related to united states:
“Steal away and stay away.
Don’t join too many gangs. Join few if any.
Join the United States and join the family
But not much in between unless a college.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The United States never lost a war or won a conference.”
—Will Rogers (1879–1935)
“I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.”
—Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)
“... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freest country on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-day as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)